Russian forces are undertaking a “massive redeployment” of troops to two southern regions of Ukraine, Kherson and Zaporizhia, in what appears to be a change of tactics by Moscow, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office has said.
Oleksiy Arestovych said in a YouTube interview that Russian forces had taken over Ukraine’s second-biggest power plant. Russian-backed forces had earlier announced the capture of the Soviet-era, coal-fired Vuhlehirsk plant in eastern Ukraine.
Arestovych said Russia seemed to be switching from offence to strategic defence, using tactical attacks in a bid to weaken Ukraine’s offensive potential in the crucial eastern Donetsk industrial region.
“[This would] place us in a position where we are unable to liberate all our territory and call for talks,” he said.
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The group of joint forces in the Kherson Region that is being periodically shelled by Ukrainian Armed Forces is being reinforced, regional military-civilian administration head Kirill Stremousov said Wednesday.
"The [joint forces] groups are being reinforced today. Security of the Kherson Region is a priority today," he told RBC.
Ukrainian forces have been shelling Kherson and the region since Kiev lost control over it this spring. Since July 11, Ukraine has been actively shelling the city of Novaya Kakhovka, destroying over 70% of the city. On July 19, Ukrainian forces started shelling the Antonovsky bridge - the only crossing over Dnieper near Kherson. The bridge has been closed for traffic after yet another attack on July 27.
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