Ukraine said that Russian forces are backtracking in Kherson thanks to Ukraine’s counteroffensive maneuvers which are allowing troops to make gains in the region. Press office of Southern Defense Forces Nataliya Gumenyuk said, writes uatv.ua.

The Kakhovka Operational Group of Troops took to Facebook on Monday, August 29 and wrote: “In the Kherson region, Russian troops have moved away from their positions, paratroopers are fleeing the battlefield”.

According to early reports from Ukraine, the country’s defence forces launched a counterattack on the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Region overnight and apparently managed to clear several settlements and reach the Kherson direction.

The operational headquarters of the Kakhovka military unit officially reports that the counterattack resulted in the 109th regiment of the “people’s militia” of the so-called “DPR” being knocked out of the defensive positions.