The Ukrainian general staff reported shellings all along the active front line. It seems the Russians are not that interested in shelling the Kherson region, which is surprising, they never miss a chance to target civilians.
Weather.
They changed it from cold and snow, to warm and wet.
Siversk
Russia made 6 attacks along the 700km long active front line. One of them was in the area of Bilohorivka, which hey claimed they captured already.
Bakhmut
No attacks were reported by Ukrainian general staff. I think that is a first. I think relocated artillery assets have a cooling effect on the Russian cannon fodder. đźš—
Donetsk
The complete failure of the RuAF attack on Pavlivka seems to have redirected their attention to Avdiivka.
RuAF repulsed attacks around Novokalynove, Vesele, Avdiivka, Vodyane and Pervomais'ke.
According Alexander Khodakovsky, the Russians pulled units from other front sections and threw them straight in to Pavlivka without shaping operations. He calls it a furnace. (assuming I understand the translation correct) pastebin.com/daTGnZuA t.me/aleksandr_skif…
In another post he talked about how some guy shot up a commander. I'm not sure when this was, but brothers morale does not seem high.
"But there were cases completely out of the ordinary ... Of the most resonant - the execution of one of the mobilized commander."
The Ukrainian general staff reported shellings all along the active frontline. There are also some shellings on the right Bank of the Dnipro in northern Kherson region.
The liberation of Kherson is the result of 3 months of attrition warfare. Continued attacks on the Russian ground lines of communications was at the end too much for Russia. To succeed this this, you also need them to spend ammo and fuel. They spend ammo and fuel during combat.
I get a lot of questions about the Russian retreat.
Why would they announce the retreat before they leave?
Why would they announce it on TV?
Here is what I believe:
The retreat has been going on for weeks.
There is only a small number of troops left east of the river, mostly lower valued units like mobniks and goat lovers. Some will most likely be sacrificed to cover the retreat of the last units
Announcing it on TV gives the Russian leadership a chance to save face. Kadyrov and Prigozhin immediately came with statement saying Surovikin was very brave and that he saved a lot of Russian lives. This announcement was purely for domestic propaganda.