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Old 9th Nov 2022, 11:58
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ORAC
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Kherson city has been abandoned and looted by the Russian command and civil administration. Reportedly they’ve stuffed it full of conscripts in civil clothes with light weapons to make it a street by street hand-to-hand fight.

Also reportedly, the UAF won’t oblige and will will simply sit outside and starve them out whilst keeping the river crossings closed. Without logistic support the remaining BTGs are collapsing and, without a means of evacuation, their armour should fall into UKR hands.

They’ve set up 3 defensive lines on the left bank and, supposedly, massed artillery to hit the UKR forces as they advance on the right bank. But with longer range artillery the UKR forces can batter them instead - and outflank them from the north and take them from the rear pinning them against the river - again.

Meanwhile……

Russian lines collapsing. That one is sure. Question is now only how (dis-)organized this is going to happen.

Northern Kherson is now one big shooting gallery for the Ukrainian artillery.
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