MYKOLAIV/KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Russian soldiers to flee for their lives after his forces launched an offensive to retake southern Ukraine, but Moscow said it had repulsed the attack and inflicted heavy losses on Kyiv's troops.
Ukraine said on Monday its ground forces had gone on the offensive for the first time after a long period of aerial strikes on Russian supply lines, especially ammunition dumps and bridges across the strategically-important River Dnipro.
Russia captured large tracts of southern Ukraine near the Black Sea coast in the early weeks of the six-month-old war, including in the Kherson region, which lies north of the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula. Ms Natalia Humeniuk, a Ukrainian military spokeswoman, on Tuesday said Kyiv could destroy any pontoon bridge across the river that Russia tried to build or ferry crossing it.Britain, an ally of Ukraine, said on Tuesday that Kyiv had stepped up its artillery barrage across the entire southern front, but that it was not yet possible to confirm the extent of Ukrainian territorial advances.
Russia's RIA news agency reported that the Russian-controlled town of Nova Kakhovka had been left without water or power after a Ukrainian missile strike.It said Ukrainian forces, after trying to go on the offensive in three different directions in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, had lost over 1,200 military personnel as well as 139 tanks, armoured vehicles and trucks.
Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians, though its shelling has devastated Ukrainian towns and cities. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in central southern Ukraine, captured by Russian troops in March but still manned by Ukrainian staff, has been a hotspot in the conflict, with both sides trading blame for shelling in the vicinity.
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