While the Western media and Ukrainian propaganda outlets, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are crowing about the reoccupation of Kherson as a “road to victory,” the reality is quite different, said Russian Maj. General Sergey Lipovoy (ret.), chairman of the presidium of Officers of Russia and a Hero of Russia. Abandoning the right bank of the Dnieper River prevented the troops there from falling into a trap, Lipovoy said. Aside from the fact that in accordance with general military principles, one should not fight a major encounter with a river in your rear, reconsolidating on the right bank of the Dnieper provides the river as an added obstacle to an attack.
“If we defended the city, defended it in full, that is, on the right and left banks [of the Dnieper], then the troops that are on the right bank may come under heavy fire. In the same way, civilians who were there could fall under the massive shelling of the city. This could lead to great casualties,” he said.
