On 19 and 20 November 2022, during defensive battles in the Kherson direction, Russian units inflicted a heavy defeat on the AFU.
A large amount of military equipment was destroyed and, according to various sources, from 130 to 220 AFU servicemen. Russian units seized numerous trophies.
The Russian Defense Ministry reports that AFU units attempted to break the defense of Russian forces in the direction of Novaya Kamenka – Chervony Yar in the Kherson Region, engaging up to three battalions, including one tank battalion, in a narrow segment of the front. The enemy managed to cut into the defenses of Russian units near the village of Sukhanovo in Kherson Region. The Russian command’s engagement of tank reserves and ambushes led to a significant defeat for the enemy, as a result of which the Ukrainian units fled in disarray. The position along the front line of the defense has been fully restored.
In the fighting in this direction more than two hundred Ukrainian servicemen, 14 tanks, 16 armored fighting vehicles and 7 vehicles were destroyed during the day. Two tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle and a UR-77 demining machine were captured as trophies. Eighteen Ukrainian servicemen surrendered.
The video below shows captured Ukrainian servicemen. A Russian unit captured seven more servicemen in the Beryslav direction, Kherson region. Among them were two officers, one company commander of the 28th Brigade Combat Team, the other commander of a tank company of the 4th Brigade.
More Ukrainian POWs from the same direction:
Despite heavy losses, the AFU command does not abandon its attempts to break through to Novaya Kakhovka and flank the entire Russian grouping near Kherson. That is why Ukrainian formations are rushing towards Berislav, where the Russians continue to fight heavy, but so far successful, defensive battles.
Kiev has pulled large forces to this section of the front – the 128th Mountain Brigade, 17th Tank Brigade, 60th Infantry Brigade and 28th Mechanized Brigade, as well as mobile groups of the 140th Regiment of the Ukrainian SSF. They have tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of armored vehicles from NATO countries at their disposal.
On the Russian side, they are opposed by units of the Russian Airborne Troops, including the 83rd Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade, as well as the 126th Coastal Defense Brigade and other units of the Russian Armed Forces.
The fighting in the Kherson region has every chance of becoming the bloodiest since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
