Kherson, on the right bank of the Dnipro, has been liberated by Ukrainian forces for twenty days and today the fighters of the special unit "Karlson" raised the Ukrainian flag also on the left bank of the region . This was announced by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After the liberation of Kherson, the Russians continued to bomb : in the last 24 hours alone, the region has been hit 28 times, the oncological center also ended up under Russian fire.
Meanwhile in Kiev - where a temperature of minus five degrees and frosts are forecast for today - there is still a blackout emergency as announced by the electricity company Dtek which specifies that it cannot follow the already planned power outages and that the technicians "are doing everything possible to stabilize the situation.
Once again, throughout the night, the Nikopol district, in the area of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was under Russian bombs . Damaged gas pipelines and electricity networks. No injuries but dozens of buildings hit including homes and farm buildings.
The Russians, according to the head of the presidential office in Kiev Mykhailo Podolyak, are waiting for the frost to strike the hardest blow to the country . «It seems to me that now Russia's tactics have changed a little: they are waiting for the temperature to drop to minus ten degrees and only then want to deal the hardest blow to Ukraine. They want to freeze us,” Podolyak said.
According to British intelligence, the Russian Army's plan at this time is to encircle the city of Bakhmut , in Donetsk Oblast, while continuing to invest much of its overall military effort and firepower along a sector of about 15 kilometers of front line.
And while the Kremlin announces the possibility of a visit "in due course" by Vladimir Putin, satellite images relaunched by the BBC show that Moscow is consolidating its military presence, particularly in Mariupol, the port city captured in recent months , where it is building a new large military base. The photos show a new U-shaped complex near the city center: on the roof the red, white and blue star of the Russian army with the inscription "from the Russian army to the people of Mariupol".
