As the Russians, to a larger extent, shifted their focus away from Kherson, they notably increased the concentration of their forces in the Zaporizhzhia region. Some of you referred to previous reports that suggested that the Ukrainians already have a lot of forces here, so the Zaporizhzhia front should be stable. However, everything is relative. At that time, the Ukrainians had a lot of forces relative to what the Russians had. Now, after the Russians regrouped, the Ukrainians do not have an advantage in terms of sheer manpower anymore. That is why the Ukrainians are trying to follow suit and move their troops to Zaporizhzhia.As you already know, the main means of transport used for moving heavy equipment is the railways. The Russians are doing two things to slow the Ukrainians. Firstly, they are targeting energy infrastructure with their missiles, which causes blackouts, and given that 85% of trains in Ukraine use electricity, military logistics are affected severely. Secondly, they are targeting the rails themselves, in particular, important interception and stations. Today the Russians tried to conduct yet another precision strike, but this turned out to be the worst precision strike that we have seen.In total, the Russians launched three missiles on Dnipro. Two of them landed in the private sector. And this was not collateral damage because the shell holes were found in the middle of the streets. As a result, more than 20 homes were destroyed or damaged, 500 square meters were burnt, and dozens of people were killed and wounded.Judging by the description, I was able to find and analyze the location. Ukrainian officials reported that the first two explosions happened in the Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi district. They also said that the explosions damaged an orphanage, so the first two rockets landed somewhere in this region. Ukrainian officials also reported that the third rocket fell in the Samarsky district and hit a warehouse with wheat, which implies that the rocket landed somewhere here.If we forget for a second that these were supposed to be precision strikes, then we can see that all rockets landed near very important connections of railways that are used to supply the Zaporizhzhia region. Even though there are other ways to deliver them, Dnipro is a crucial center that connects everything in Ukraine.The fact that all three rockets missed might be partially explained by the recent report of the British Ministry of Defense, where they stated that judging by the remnants of the rockets found in Ukraine, the Russians started using even older versions of their cruise missiles due to the depletion of their arsenal, and these old rockets obviously have even worse precision. If that’s really the case, then it seems like the Ukrainians will manage to relocate their equipment from Kherson with no hurdles.And when it comes to Kherson, the Armed Forces of Ukraine believe that the Russians, in the coming weeks, will not have any opportunity to force the river, which is why they are gradually redeploying units to other directions. Nonetheless, as I told you yesterday, the Ukrainians are still keeping a substantial amount of forces here, possibly to utilize them if they discover an opportunity to conduct an attack.And while Ukrainian sabotage groups and artillery are working in concert to undermine Russian defense in this region, the Ukrainians are repairing the infrastructure damaged by the leaving Russians, and today Kherson and the nearby areas finally got electricity. Working energy facilities are crucial for sustaining military operations, especially if the Ukrainians take the idea of crossing the river seriously.But intactness of critical infrastructure is important not only for the military but also civilians. These electricity outages severely affect the population, especially the younger demographics, because, for safety reasons, all education establishments work only online, and with no electricity, they cannot even get that.
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