The British Ministry of Defense said Russia has committed its airborne forces to defending Kherson.
along the east bank of the Inhulets tributary and west bank of the Dnieper River but were not yet threatening the main Russian defensive positions.
"Russian forces have typically broken contact and withdrawn," the defense officials said, concluding that Russian commanders considered the Nova Kakhovka sector"as one of their most pressing concerns." Ukrainian soldiers react as they ride on a personnel armored carrier on a road in Donetsk region on October 5, 2022.As well as having a power station and dam, Nova Kakhovka is the location of the start of the North Crimean Canal that takes fresh water to the peninsula Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
This meant that Russia faces the"dilemma" of either defending the west bank of the Dnieper or withdrawing its combat forces across the river to help them defend the rest of Kherson province. However"the political imperative will be to remain and defend." Russia had committed most of its"severely undermanned airborne forces," the VDV, to defending Kherson, which meant that it lacked extra high quality rapidly deployable forces to stabilize the front.
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