British intelligence says that the Ukrainian military's ongoing counter-offensive to retake the city of Kherson in the country's south appears to be gaining momentum. But Ukraine says Russia is massively redeploying its troops into defensive positions
In messages to mark the annual Day of Ukrainian Statehood, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy congratulated Ukrainians and sounded defiant.
Ukraine said on Thursday its planes had struck five Russian strongholds around the city of Kherson and another nearby city. Ukraine says it has retaken some small settlements on the region's northern edge in recent weeks as it tries to push Russian forces back, a potential prelude to what Kyiv has billed as a major counter-offensive to retake the south.
"Russia's 49th Army, stationed on the west bank of the Dnipro River, now looks highly vulnerable," it said in an intelligence bulletin."Its loss would severely undermine Russia's attempts to paint the occupation as a success," British intelligence said. Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to President Zelenskiy, said Russia was conducting a "massive redeployment" of forces from the east to the south in what amounted to a strategic shift from attack to defence.RIA reported on Thursday that Russian security services had uncovered a group of Ukrainian agents in Kherson who had been paid to pass on the map coordinates of Russian forces there to Ukraine for targeting with artillery.
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