On the example of satellite photos of the Genichesk district, we will try to figure out when Russian troops began to build defense lines here and on the left bank of the Kherson region
Let’s look at the surroundings of the small roadside village of Novy Mir in the Genichesk district located near the Kharkiv-Simferopol highway.
The outskirts of the village of Novy Mir in the Genichesk district of the Kherson region — satellite photo from November 2, 2022
There are no signs of the construction of a fortified defense line.
On November 11, units of the Ukrainian army entered the city without fighting. The Russian leadership believed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had every chance on the shoulders of the retreating troops to enter the territory of the Left Bank and continue moving south.
Therefore, for example, in the Kherson region, immediately after the surrender of Kherson, the Russians began to massively build defensive lines of defense.
The following satellite photo of the outskirts of the village of Novy Mir in the Genichesk district of the Kherson region can serve as proof of this
As you can see in the photo of November 12, a line of trenches appears from the southern part of the village of Novy Mir. Interestingly, judging by the location of the trenches, the defense was supposed to be kept from attack from Melitopol, and the village itself was used as an additional foreground. The line of trenches was also located on the side of the Simferopol highway.
Thus, the turning point in the presence of Russian troops and the strategy of the Russian administration in the Kherson region was their withdrawal from the Right Bank of the Kherson region.
Interestingly, the exit was organized, with minimal losses of personnel and with the complete withdrawal of serviceable equipment from the right bank.
It is also interesting that for some time the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not enter Kherson, as the speaker of the Ukrainian command Yug (Pivden) explained, fearing “traps and provocations” from the Russian army
After the withdrawal of the Russian army in public, the battles in Novaya Kakhovka, Aleshki, Gopry and on the Tendrovskaya Spit were dully reported.
The military command of the Ukrainian army in this direction demanded information silence and even did not allow Ukrainian journalists into the region for several days, explaining this by concern for their safety.
Attention switched to the “Bakhmut meat grinder” and the Russians in the Kherson region received more than half a year of time for the calm construction of defensive structures and fortifications.
The “conspiracy theorists” explain the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kherson without fighting by the fact that in this way the conditions of some pre-war agreements on the division of the Kherson region along the Dnieper River were restored.
Allegedly, in the initial period of the war, the Russians slipped through the dividing line and entered Kherson, which violated certain agreements.
All this is most likely idle speculation.
However, so far no one has clearly explained the surrender of the Kherson region to the Russians on the very first day of the war.
It must be said that the abandonment of the regional center without a fight made a depressing impression not only on the pro-Russian part of the population, but also on the vacillating inhabitants.
Which led to the emergence of such a term as «waiting»
This refers to a fairly large category of people who treated the actions of the new government with distrust and suspicion, and these same fears were confirmed.
Residents of the Kherson region, who recklessly relied on the Russian government, realized that, compared with the so-called. «waiters» have a real chance of getting problems if the entire Kherson region is returned under the control of Ukraine.
The scenario is quite probable, given that the war has not ended and how and where it will end is unclear
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