While Kyiv itself has not confirmed that it has launched the much-awaited spring counter-offensive against Russia, one analyst said that “by the sounds of it, it has”.
on the Dnipro River separating Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine, analysts said on Wednesday , a day after the incident.
Mr William Courtney, adjunct senior fellow at United States think tank RAND Corporation, similarly said that the Russians were trying to impede crossing of the Dnipro river by Ukrainian forces. For a long time, Ukraine has denied the supply of freshwater resources to Crimea, a peninsula that Russia invaded and subsequently annexed from Ukraine in 2014, he added. After invading Ukraine, the Russians restored freshwater supply to the peninsula.
However, he said he would not call it a counter-offensive because in the majority of areas where Ukraine launched this operation, the Russians were sitting in defensive positions. He added that it is possible that the Russians have decided to flood the river there to make it harder for Ukrainian forces to cross below the dam.also appear to be Ukrainian efforts to “bring the war home to Russians, to cause Russians to feel somewhat insecure”, he added.
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