The Ukrainian army said on Monday that it has launched an offensive on "many fronts" in the south of the country and that it has managed to break a first line of defense of Russian troops in the Kherson region.
"Ukrainian armed forces have launched offensive actions on many southern fronts," Nataliya Humenyuk, head of the South Ukraine Defense Forces Joint Coordination Press Center, was quoted as saying by the Ukrainskaya Pravda daily.
"The enemy forces are quite powerful, they have been moving there for a long time, gathering military reserves, equipment... But our previous measures, what we called fire control over enemy logistics, worked," the spokeswoman added.
"Warehouses with ammunition were destroyed, concentrations of military equipment were destroyed and air defense facilities were destroyed. All this definitely weakened the enemy," the source added according to the Ukrainian agency Ukrinform.
"But it's too early to relax," Humenyuk said at a press conference.
The Kajovka operational-tactical group of the army, for its part, assured that the 109 Regiment of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic has withdrawn from its positions in the Kherson region and the Russian paratroopers who supported them have left the battlefield.
Spokeswoman Humenyuk also launched a warning for the civilian population, saying that "if there was no or now there is no opportunity to evacuate from those cities where there may be active hostilities, seek refuge and wait."
