04 Sep: BIG VICTORY. Russia’s Strongest Town FELL | War in Ukraine Explained

Reporting from Ukraine YouTube Channel ^ | September 4, 2022 | Reporting from Ukraine

[Widget Jr]

I am a Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the one hundred and ninty third day of the war.

Day 193: September 04

Today Ukrainian counteroffensive operation was marked by a big symbolic event.

In the Dudchany direction, the fighters of the 103 National Guard battalion together with the fighters of the 63 brigade officially confirmed that they established full control over Vysokopillia and showed a video where they raise the Ukrainian flag above the town. This is the most important town in the northern part of the region, because it is big and provides good cover, and because it is located at a higher altitude, which gives a huge tactical advantage in the fields of Kherson.

The fact this town was taken so fast confirms my previous assessment. The Ukrainians indeed put the Russians in Vysokopillia in the operational encirclement, and in fear of finding themselves completely in a pocket they retreated. Yesterday the Russians accumulated forces and tried to take Vysokopillia back but apparently, their counterattack failed. From here the Ukrainians are going to establish control over Novopetrivka and Blakytne in order to prevent Russian reinforcements and given that they already control half of Arkhanhelske, take it under total control as well. In fact, the Russians already report intensive drone attacks around Novopetrivka.

In the Nova Kahovka direction, there is also some good news. Ukrainian yesterday’s attack on Blahodativka was a success, so they gained control over this settlement as well and expanded the Inhulets bridgehead westwards. From here the Ukrainians will also strike Davydiv Brid to expand their bridgehead eastwards. In fact, we can say that the fights here have already started, because in trying to prevent the Ukrainian attack, the Russians started to strike Bila Krynytsia. As you can see, the Ukrainians are moving from two sides simultaneously, and if they manage to successfully develop their offensives in these two directions, two more Russian strongholds will be taken in a pocket – Velyka Oleksandrivka and Novodmytrivka. And it would be quite hard for the Russians to save them because there is no other Russian-controlled settlements within a radius of 15 km around these two towns. When it comes to the area around Sukhyi Stavok and Kostromka, there were updates, but there were updates regarding Russian activities a little bit to the west. Here, it was spotted that the Russian are gathering forces to attack Blahodativka.

In the Kherson direction, the fights for the most part are positional, meaning there are no attempts to make a breakthrough. Ukrainian aviation continues to be the most active in this direction, and over the last day again conducted more than 20 airstrikes. Some sources suggest that the Russians in Myroliubivka unsuccessfully tried to attack Posad-Pokrovske, others say that the Ukrainians in Posad-Pokrovske unsuccessfully tried to attack Myroliubivka. Some also say that the Ukrainians simultaneously launched a supporting attack from Tavriiske. To be honest, I think that these reports are overly exaggerated. I think that positional fights took place between these settlements and that there was some movement in the direction of these settlements to improve tactical position, but I do not think that anybody here tried to take anyone’s strongholds because both sides control too many small positions in between.

Apart from ground fights, Ukrainian forces conducted over 400 artillery missions along the whole Kherson front line. The most important strikes happened deep in the region. Today it was confirmed that a section of the Nova Kahovka Bridge completely collapsed. This means that the bridge is totally inoperable and that the Russians are for sure unable to send supplies from here. The Ukrainians also destroyed another Russian pontoon bridge in Kozatske. It seems like very soon they are going to run out of barges that they use as segments of pontoon bridges. The Ukrainians also struck ammunition depots in Oleshky, Kherson and Beryslav regions, and a command center in Snihurivka. Overall, this was a good day for the Ukrainian forces.

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[Widget Jr]

Reporting from Ukraine is a Ukranian blogger who started his channel early March, after Russia invaded. He gives his assessement of where the Kherson counteroffensive on its fifth day.

Video summary for operations along the Kherson front:

• Ukraine has retaken Vysokopillia in the northern part of the offensive area. This town's location gives Ukraine a advantage in the immediate area.
• The also retook Blahodativka and expanded the Inhulets Bridgehead in the middle of the front.
• These advances are putting Russian control in the Northern part of Kherson at risk.
• Toward the south, fighting is ongoing, it doesn't look like recovering territory is happening.
• Ukranian drones are busy in the north, while aviation is conducting airstrikes in the south.
• Part of the Nova Kahovka bridge between Kherson and Crimea has collapsed. Heavy equipment can not cross it - although Russian forces can walk out from Kherson to Crimea.
• A pontoon bridge in Kozatske was destroyed / rendered inoperable. .

My ½¢ take on this:

1. Before the counter offensive began, Ukraine used HIMARS to attack bridges between Kherson and Crimea, and Russian depots on the western side of the Dniper river. Some bridges are damaged enough that heavy vehicles can not use them, while personnel can walk across them. This degraded Russian supply, resupply, and command and control in this area.
2. The pontoon bridges are a wasted effort. They are less effective than normal bridges and HIMARS can attack them the same.
3. The Northern advances are where Ukraine is successful so far, and have a opprotunity to take back a larger area. If that happens, Ukraine will have a military and political victory. Instead of just surviving they are now on the offensive and winning. That will be huge if that happens.
4. Ukrainian airstrikes in the south mean Russia air power and air defense in that area is less effective. MY guess is Ukraine will hold in the south more than advance and let artillery and air power work, while advancing in the North.
5. The preparing of the battle zone by concentrating HIMARS attacks in the Kherson region was a BIG CLUE that a conter offensive was coming. Other than propoganda claiming Ukraine has failed, Russia has now shown much in decisive counter action, despite having enough information to know something was up and time to take action. "If" this is the case, and this is a big "if" right now, that is a big indication the Russian abilities to sustain a conflict has severely degraded since the invasion started.

Comments, clarifications and criticisms welcome. Collection buckets for the bitter tears of Russophiles available upon request.

🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

[BobL]

“04 Sep: BIG VICTORY. Russia’s Strongest Town FELL”

Glad to see they understand which country will wind up controlling the town.

[toddausauras]

We know which side has the best fighting morale...that’s a no brainer. The stupid Russian monolith has once again found itself stuck in a bad offensive war.

[silverleaf]

Sadly for his fans, this victory may already be old news.
The flag was raised over a hospital, only the western part of the town was occupied. I read Russian Airborne forces launched a counterattack in force, a few hours ago, and it is not going well for Ukraine.

[JonPreston]

💨 wind

[silverleaf]

From t.gm.

Battle for Kherson: the situation on the Olginsky site
by the end of September 4, 2022

At 16:00 Moscow time, units of the Russian Airborne Forces launched a counteroffensive against the lost positions in Vysokopolie, intending to straighten out the situation at the front and level the front line.

At 19.00 Moscow time, a laconic entry appeared in the private channel of Ukrainian journalist Anatoly Shariy: “They took the highlands. The highlands have been surrendered.” Shariy did not provide any other comments, but if we take into account the information about the beginning of the counteroffensive, this leads to the idea of ​​the success of the counterattack.

At the moment, there is no information from our sources from this site: unfortunately, there are extremely big problems with communication near Andreevka, near Sukhy Stavk, and in the area of ​​Olgin and Vysokopole.

In any case, for now, we proceed from the best and believe that the counterattack was successful, and the Russian Airborne Forces managed to regain control over the central part of the settlement.

@rybar

[silverleaf]

“The preparing of the battle zone by concentrating HIMARS attacks in the Kherson region”

On civilian targets
And a bridge the military doesn’t use
Not exactly battle prep..

[Widget Jr]

#6. That has been posted on other threads without a link. I iss common courtesy to post a link so people can find the source. Most of telegram channels are just shilling for Russia anyway. Most people don't care what Russian shills say or assume the opposite is true.

[silverleaf]

Their minds, their choice
No I don’t link tg
Both Russia and Ukraine have active channels

[Brellium]

If you listen to Rashists and their propagandists the Ukrainians have no tanks, no soldiers, and just 1 man with cigarettes.

[BeauBo]

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Victory! Victory! The war is coming to an end! The attack is reaping rewards unimagined. The war will be over in weeks with A Ukraine Victory, Ukraine should get all of the Black Sea—next the Russian Black Sea fleet must be destroyed with drones, rockets and other wonder weapons. A Pearl Harbor for Russia that will show who is the boss of the battlefield! This will be a glorious Christmas with all Ukraine FREE and new territories taken from Russian occupation for Greater Ukraine. I believe Ukraine is the next powerful nation in the EU, richer than Germany. Working out so well —Nothing can stop Ukraine now!

[walkingdead]

Nice of you to keep the part at the end of the article where the author is pimping his schwag.

[Widget Jr]

#13. The description for the video was the reading script, so I just copied it all without editing and linked it. YouTubers self promote all the time, its no big deal.

[freeandfreezing]

On civilian targets

Let me guess. Those are the ones that have huge secondary explosions where rockets and shells fly out of the fire and they burn for days. Those farmers keep a serious stash of rockets and artillery shells in their barns I guess.

[cranked]

Why after having a 3:1 advantage, home filed advantage so to speak, 10s of billions of US taxpayer dollars and 19 packages of US military ‘wonder weapon’ equipment sent, the Ukrainians still losing the war/conflict against Russia?