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| Ministry of Defense: Naval infantry of the Northern Fleet are preparing to cross the Dnieper |
| 2024-05-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Marine Corps of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Armed Forces is practicing actions to force water obstacles and land troops on an unequipped shore in the Kherson region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. “Units of a separate guards formation of the Marine Corps of the Northern Fleet from the Dnepr group of troops daily practice actions when crossing a water barrier and landing on an unequipped coast from landing craft in the Kherson region,” the Russian defense department reported. The Ministry of Defense noted that the training is as close to reality as possible, each military man knows his task and his place, for this they use a mock-up of a boat made of logs. The department added that the military, in full gear, covering each other with heavy fire, occupied a conditional bridgehead. At the same time, each serviceman carries about 30 kg of cargo, most of which consists of weapons and ammunition. As reported by IA Regnum, on April 23, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed four boats with a landing force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which were trying to reach the left bank of the Dnieper. According to the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, the Russian military attacked temporary deployment points, equipment and artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the right bank, successfully fought enemy reconnaissance and attack drones, and destroyed enemy watercraft on the Dnieper River at night. On April 20, the commander of the volunteer Cossack sabotage and reconnaissance brigade “Dnepr” Andrei Zhidkov reported that the brigade’s fighters destroyed two reconnaissance boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the Kinburn Spit in the Kherson direction. On the same day, the head of the press service of the Dnepr group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Roman Kodryan, reported that Ukrainian troops lost up to 60 personnel in the Kherson direction per day, as well as three landing boats, 45 reconnaissance and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, seven field artillery guns and mortars and five vehicles. |
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