All language subtitles for 022-010

The situation for Russian troops in Kherson
is critical.

The local population is violently sabotaging
any actions of the Russians, giving away headquarters

positions, blowing up key collaborators and
military personnel.

Management of the group moved to the left
bank long ago, because it is impossible to

safely manage the occupation troops in the
city itself.

Ammunition, food and fuel, the enemy has a
critical situation with this.

The winter for Russians in the occupied areas
on the right bank will be unbearable.

Communications between the banks have collapsed.

In fact the Russians are not able to move
large numbers of troops quickly.

Only gradually.

And if the Kherson-Krivoy Rog front is again
broken through by AFU troops, large Russian

forces in the Nikolaev direction will find
themselves surrounded, cut off from escape

routes.

Thus, Russia has only three options.

The first is to go on the offensive and push
back Ukrainian troops to Krivoy Rog and Mykolaiv.

This option is still completely unrealistic
for Russian military forces.

To have such an ambition, one must have total
control of the sky, and this is not the case.

The second option is to send more troops for
defense with the risk of losing these troops

in case of unsuccessful combat operations
and a breakthrough by the AFU to the bridges.

And, in my opinion, the Russians have not
yet given up hope for the second option.

Although they are already morally preparing
future mobilized Russians for a "goodwill

gesture," explaining why the Russian army
is being defeated again.

What is happening now looks more like an attempt
by the Russian occupiers to hold occupied

Kherson at all costs.

To hold out until the time when, as the Russians
believe, they will gain at least some advantage

in numbers.

Even if right now it means the risk of losing
a large amount of equipment, in case the AFU

forces break through the front.

I am not talking about the Russian soldiers
who will find themselves surrounded on the

right bank, their fate is already clear.

Besides, if the Russians receive an order
to retreat from the occupied districts of

Kherson, under cover of evacuation, the AFU
will have to enter the city itself with combat,

because the Russians will cover the retreat
exactly in the trenches around the regional

center.

On the whole it does not look like a voluntary
retreat by the enemy now, but right now one

can only be sure of the Ukrainians' desire
to liberate their country.

The Russians have built strong defensive lines
around Kherson, for Kherson is the main objective

before the liberation of Crimea.

For the final victory, it is necessary to
come close to the bridges so that the situation

becomes obvious to the Russians and there
is no chance of holding Kherson - only retreat.

When that moment comes, the Russians will
run again.