Ukrainian soldier. File photoSIMFEROPOL, Sep 22Ukrainian troops have lost their offensive capability and striking power in the Kherson direction, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region, told RIA Novosti. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the successful repulse of the offensive, Ukrainian troops are suffering heavy losses in manpower and equipment. «Ukrainian Nazis lost their offensive ability and striking power as a result of constant thoughtless attacks on the outskirts of the Kherson region, laying down thousands of lives of Ukrainians who were forcibly driven into the trenches» , — said Stremousov. According to him, the line of demarcation is under the control of the allied forces. «The Nazis will not be able to break through and enter the territory of the Kherson region,» Stremousov said. 48ca7d42eac9ea662e48ca5722f0f52b.jpg» />In the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, 86 accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were detained in a week. The day before, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian troops had lost more than 200 soldiers and 21 pieces of military equipment while trying to counterattack near the village of Pravdino in the Kherson region. Earlier, an activist of the Nikolaev underground told RIA Novosti that local hospitals were so full of wounded Ukrainian soldiers near Kherson that many were being taken to other cities, while the soldiers themselves talk about cases when their injuries were documented as domestic injuries in order to hide the real statistics. During the special operation the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region, occupying such large cities as Kherson, Melitopol and Berdyansk, and cutting off Ukraine from the Sea of Azov. New administrations have been formed in both regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations are broadcasting, trade and transport links with Crimea are being restored, the North Crimean Canal has been unblocked eight years later, and water is flowing back to the peninsula. The regions are preparing to hold referendums on joining Russia.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed about 170 Ukrainian troops near Kherson and Nikolaev
