The intensification of the battle of Kherson | GP

Fighting rages around the city of Preslav, on the western side of the Dnieper River in the Kherson region, one of the areas where Ukraine is launching its counterattack.

Kirill Strimosov, head of Russia’s occupation regime in the region, tells Telegram that the Ukrainians are trying to break through the front line in the direction of Pereslav “by all possible means” but have managed to push them away.

‘Forcibly expelled’

Ukrainian commanders in the Kherson region at the same time say that Russian forces have bombed several communities in the area.

– The enemy continues to defend and is trying to take control of the occupied lines, says the commander of Ukrainian operations in the south, according to CNN.

The Russian occupation regime claims that thousands of civilians will be “evacuated” from the area. According to Ukraine, the government forced people to leave their homes.

“Citizens living on the banks of the Dnieper are forcibly evicted from their homes,” the Ukrainian military wrote on Facebook, according to AFP.

Electricity and water in Kyiv

The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, announced in the Telegram messaging service that in the capital, Kyiv, the population was returned to water and power supplies.

During Monday morning, electricity was cut off in several areas after Russian attacks on critical infrastructure in Kyiv and other parts of the country. According to Vitali Klitschko, the attacks have left 80 percent of the capital’s population without water and 350,000 residents without electricity.

However, planned power outages due to power system deficits are also expected in the future, Klitico writes.

The targets of the attacks, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, were military targets and energy infrastructure targets in Ukraine. According to the ministry, high-precision long-range weapons were used against military command and power systems.