The Ukrainian military also claimed to have destroyed a large Russian military base in the Kherson region. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - The Ukrainian military announced on Monday that it had launched offensive operations in multiple areas along the front line in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, perhaps signalling the start of a broad and longFighting along a swathe of the front line escalated sharply on Monday, according to Ukrainian military and civilian officials, and the Ukrainian government said that its military had"breached the occupiers' first line of defence near Kherson.
A US defence official lent support to the idea that Ukraine was escalating its offensive in the south, saying:"The announced offensive shows the Ukrainians' appetite for progress on the battlefield." The spokesperson for the southern military command, Nataliya Gumenyuk, said Ukraine had begun"offensive actions in many directions" in the south. She later issued a statement saying:"Every military operation requires silence," and"everyone needs to be patient."
The reports of intensifying fighting came as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that a team of nuclear experts would visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which lies north of Kherson. An official familiar with the agency's plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the IAEA team would arrive there Wednesday at the earliest.
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