Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] In the area of Blagodatny, Snigirevka, Vysokopole and Davydov Brod, the enemy failed to achieve significant success, despite the losses incurred. It was not possible to break through to Kiselevka, as well as to provide fire control over the road to Vysokopolye.
In the area of the village of Sukhoi Stavok, the enemy was able to advance from the bridgehead near Andreevka and is now trying to gain a foothold in the village in order to try to cover the positions of the RF Armed Forces near Davydov Brod. They drove the enemy out of the village itself.
The enemy continues to actively strike at Berislav, Novaya Kakhovka, in the Kherson region. At least 1 ammunition depot was destroyed and a barge used to cross the Dnieper was damaged.
The RF Armed Forces are striking in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the enemy lost about 50 units of heavy and light armored vehicles, 2 attack aircraft, more than 560 military personnel killed during today's battles.
Against the background of the shelling of Berislav and the crossing of the Dnieper, the enemy is trying to increase pressure on the river. Ingulets to advance to Berislav. Despite the fact that in most areas the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended unsuccessfully, until the next crisis on Ingulets was resolved, it is too early to say that the offensive completely failed.
On the "counteroffensive on Kherson".
[ColonelCassad] Ukrainian sources claim a "counteroffensive against Kherson" and a strike in the direction of the village of Sukhoi Stavok (near Belogorka) and even the capture of the village of Sukhoi Stavok. So far, there has been an attempt to move from the Andreevka area in the direction of Bruskinskoye, Sukhoi Stavok and Kostromka.
In general, these are all the same attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to implement the plans of mid-August with an attack on Berislav in order to cut off part of the bridgehead of the RF Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper.
Intense artillery shelling of Berislav is also recorded (the workshop of the machine-building plant is on fire), as well as traditional positional battles on the Ingulets River (Kryvyi Rih direction) and in the Potemkino-Vysokopolye region (Nikopol direction - by the way, at night they covered the accumulation of enemy troops in the Novorontsovka area - many 200x). Enemy losses in people and equipment are noted in the Olginka and Vysokopolie area.
Also, active battles are going on in the area of Partizansky and Aleksandrovka, where, after the capture of Blagodatny, the front advanced towards Nikolaev.
In Novaya Kakhovka, the evacuation of residents to bomb shelters was announced due to many hours of shelling of the city from the MLRS. Air defense works in Kherson and in the area of Nova Kakhovka. It is worth noting that one HIMARS rocket did not work properly and fell intact in the region. It has already been taken out for study.
About the situation in Nikolaev 29.08.2022
Commentary by Larisa Shesler
[ColonelCassad] The main news today was the complete shutdown of water throughout the city.
The authorities no longer blame the shelling, but admit that there was an accident at the water intake, and the timing of turning on the water is unknown.
Many in social networks believe that the main reason for the shutdown was the complete unsuitability of salt water from the estuary, which harms networks much more than the absence of water.
Against this background, information about the closure of several points for the distribution of drinking water sounded especially painful. In all likelihood, the water from the water supply was further purified there, and the shutdown of the central water supply became the reason for their closure.
On Sunday, Irina Vereshchuk came to Nikolaev. According to some reports, her arrival was supposed to extinguish the scandal between Sienkiewicz and the regional ombudsman of Khmelnytsky, who accused the city authorities of disgusting conditions for refugees.
In order to dampen the scandal, she brought back promises of additional funding for hostels and shelters.
City officials have sweetened the pill for the unemployed by including them on the list of people eligible for aid.
True, in order to get on this list, you need to be officially registered at the employment center, and there are only 1800 such people in Nikolaev.
If we take into account Kim's confessions that 80 percent of Nikolaev residents have lost their jobs, then the figure clearly does not correspond to the scale of those in need.
But given the already huge queues for humanitarian aid, in which desperate pensioners fight and quarrel, there will be a noticeable increase in problems with obtaining food packages.
If a week ago the city authorities abandoned the idea of forced evacuation of the population, now the voices from Kyiv are louder and louder about this, which included the Mykolaiv region among the critical ones, along with Kharkiv and Zaporozhye.
For diligence in repressions, the head of the Nikolaev SBU, Nevedrov, was promoted to general.
Of course, in no other area are there such a flow of reports about the detentions of elderly people who “speak pro-Russian on social networks.” Yes, and "correctors" grab almost daily.
Through gritted teeth, the authorities admitted the loss of Blagodatny, from which Nikolaev is only 32 kilometers away.
But at the same time, they continue to “advance on Kherson, breaking through the next lines of defense on the way to Kherson.
But even the most notorious city "patriots" do not believe in it.
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