Regarding the Novaya Kakhovka dam, three days ago the Ukrainian army again shelled it with Himars rockets. All but one of them were shot down by Russian anti-aircraft defence. Unfortunately, the remaining rocket hit and damaged one of the dam’s sluices, raising fears that Kherson could be flooded and the floating pontoons providing the Russian army’s logistical “lifeline” destroyed.

In fact, during his meeting with the Russian Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, Surovikin mentioned this risk as one of the factors that led him to propose withdrawing Russian troops from Kherson and the right bank of the Dnieper. The aim was to avoid the operational encirclement of several thousand men by cutting off their supply lines.

He also said that civilian supplies to Kherson were also complicated in the current situation, and that keeping civilians in Kherson alive in good conditions had become very difficult.


@@@@Keep in mind that this is the Russian leader speaking, not the Ukraine leader. The Russian military has gone to great lengths to prevent civilian deaths. All the horror stories of barbaric acts by Russia upon civilians just doesn't jive with what the Russian military has been doing to prevent civilian casualties. Those horror stories are Ukraine propaganda specifically aimed at creating Russian h**e in the west; a h**e that ensures more funding and military aid from mainly the US and Biden.@@@@


https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022/11/10/russia-announces-the-withdrawal-of-russian-troops-from-kherson-and-the-right-bank-of-the-dnieper/


The Russian army have been defending a dam which protects much of the city of Kherson. The Ukraine military are not hesitant to destroy it: "This difficult decision taken by Surovikin with the approval of Sergei Shoigu was made necessary by the current conditions resulting both from strategic mistakes made by some commanders at the beginning of the special operation, and by the destruction caused by the Ukrainian army, which does not care about flooding half of Kherson."