At the first stage, the regional center will definitely be released, the expert predicts.
The analyst told what the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could be / photo from social networks.
The Ukrainian army is able to liberate a significant part of the territory occupied by Russian invaders Kherson region.
This opinion was expressed in an interviewSuspilnygeopolitical analyst at the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) George Varos.
He predicts that the counteroffensive will first touch the right-bank part of the region, where the regional center is also located.
“It will be difficult for the Ukrainians to mount a larger counter-offensive. I think there will be at least one part of the counter-offensive to liberate territories up to the Perekop rampart near Crimea. But crossing the Dnieper will be a difficult task, so I think the first stage of the counter-offensive will most likely be is focused on the liberation of Kherson, as well as the entire territory on the other side of the Ingulets River, for example, the territory from Vysokopolie to Novaya Kakhovka,” he suggested.
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The analyst also noted the extreme importance of the Antonovsky bridge, which Russia uses to support its group in Kherson.
“In general, there are two great bridges – Antonovsky and Novokahovsky. The Ukrainian counter-offensive would have to break these supply lines so that the Russians could no longer provide reinforcements through them to Kherson. At the same time, I hope that the Ukrainians do not destroy these bridges, because that they will be needed to continue the counter-offensive from Kherson to the Crimea, because otherwise it will be necessary to build pontoon crossings across the Dnieper. And this is an extremely wide river, so it would be extremely difficult,” Varos said.
