Moscow’s troops have retreated from a key position in the partially occupied southern Kherson region, days after Ukrainian forces launched a missile attack on the headquarters of a Russian military group.
The Russian Ministry of Defense was quoted by state-run news agencies on Monday as saying that the command of the Dnipro Group of Forces decided to transfer troops to more advantageous positions east of the Russian-occupied left bank of the Kherson Oblast.
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The Ukrainian strike on the headquarters belonging to the Dnipro Group of Forces was reported by multiple sources, including the Institute for the Study of War’s (ISW), a U.S.-based think tank, last week. British intelligence officials assessed in April that the Russian group was likely deployed to defend Ukraine’s Kherson region, which it partially occupies.
The Russian Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, which purports to have inside information from Russian security forces, and Public Reserve Stugna, an organization created to support Ukraine’s Stugna special forces battalion, said three Russian officers were killed on November 1 as a result of an attack on the military group’s base using U.S.-provided Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS).
After the regrouping, the military group “will release part of the forces that will be used for an offensive in other directions,” the ministry said.
This is a developing story and it will be updated when further information becomes available.
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