Ukraine also recaptured nearly 200 square miles in the southern region of Kherson in recent days, in an offensive that aimed to cut off thousands of Russian soldiers stationed west of the Dnipro River in territory that Russia claimed in the initial stages of its invasion.
This battle is resembling the Battle of Stalingrad. Once again a sizable. poorly supplied Russian force with its backs against a river barrier is being hard pressed. These troops, said to be some of Russia’s best, have no reliable means to withdraw across the Dnieper river. At Stalingrad the Russians closed a pincer and surrounded the Germans causing over 90,000 Germans to surrender. Do the Russians have the forces to again close a trap on the attacking Ukrainians or this time is it the Russians who surrender en masse? The outcome of this battle will determine who wins this useless war.