Ukraine has launched an offensive in the Kherson area – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country

The offensive is particularly aimed at the city of Kherson, the only regional capital Russian forces have succeeded in capturing in Ukraine. The city was the first to be taken by Russian forces after the invasion in February. – Ukrainian forces have begun the offensive in the south. The goal is to liberate occupied areas, Natalia Humenyuk, spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Command, told CNN on Monday morning. Announced in July The reports of an offensive have so far not been independently verified. It has been reported for several weeks that Ukrainian forces have prepared a counter-offensive in the south. There have been reports of, among other things, systematic attacks against bridges and ammunition depots. Serheij Khlan sits on the regional council in Kherson. He tells Ukrainian Pryamyi TV that this is the beginning of an operation aimed at recapturing occupied territories. – Today there was a powerful artillery attack on enemy positions throughout the occupied Kherson region, he says. – This is an announcement we have been waiting for since spring. It is the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Kherson region, says Khlan. Expectations of a Ukrainian offensive have grown slowly but surely since the start of July. Then Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov stated that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had ordered the liberation of the occupied territories in the south. COUNTER-OFFENSIVE: Ukrainian forces launched a major counter-offensive against Russian forces in the south of the country on Monday. No law with Ukrainian currency According to the Russian news agency Tass, the statement from the Ukrainian authorities is false. – More and more residents of Kherson want to become part of Russia and to be a Russian region, claims Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civilian administration in the area, to Tass. Kherson is located just north of the Crimean peninsula, in the south of the country and on the Dnipro River, which divides the country in two. The city is therefore considered strategically important. Before the war, approximately 300,000 inhabitants lived in the city. Now it is no longer allowed to use Ukrainian currency – it is Russian rubles that apply, writes Aftenposten.



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