An officer of the Ukrainian army made public, perhaps, the first video of the battles in Kherson since the beginning of Kyiv’s counteroffensive in the south.

The recording was shared by Colonel Anatoly Shtefan, a Ukrainian officer who during the war announced the destruction of several Russian generals and commanders, as well as some of Moscow’s most prominent military personnel.

Stefan notes that the recording was made outside the city of Tavriysk in the Kherson region, which was occupied by the Russian armed forces in the first weeks of the war, and adds in a typical ironic style that “again they (the Russians) smoked in the wrong place. “

Despite the fact that in the morning footage of the fighting around the city of Kherson, the capital of the region of the same name, appeared on social networks, this appears to be the first time that the Ukrainian military has made the video public. battles in the area.

Ukraine called for a media blackout of the offensive in the Kherson region

On Monday afternoon, after the Ukrainian mass media reported the start of the long-awaited counteroffensive in the south of the country, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak addressed journalists and politicians in Kyiv with a public call not to publish information about the Kherson offensive, etc. than what was broadcast on the official channels of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“I understand your wishes and dreams. But still, I suggest moving to a careful format of comments regarding any of our military actions,” Podolyak wrote in Telegram on Monday afternoon.

“Therefore, I would like to once again remind all politicians, experts and leaders of public opinion (of course, they know everything much better than the direct executors) about how important it is not to manipulate and not speculate on information about the conduct of hostilities before the official statements of representatives of the Armed Forces or of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,” he emphasized.

The President of Ukraine confirmed on Tuesday morning that the Kherson region has become the epicenter of heavy fighting after the Ukrainian army advanced here along almost the entire front.

Kyrylo Stremousov, the deputy head of the occupation authority established by the Russians in the region, fled to Russia a day ago, from where he assured that the Ukrainian offensive was “useless”.

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