A 'post scriptum' to my Kherson-related report from this morning:
- Some of survivors of the 205th Cossack Brigade overrun by Ukrainians on 2 October, run so hard, they stopped only after returning home to Luhansk, today.
(That's a result of the Russians - intentionally - leaving behind the 208th Separatist Regiment in Lyman, while running away.)
- the VDV 're-groupped' from Arhanhelske, Starosillya, and Velyka Oleksandrivka all the way to.... somewhere far, far away in the south.
- ....so much so, it seems a BTG of the VDV then got encricled in the Petropavlivka area, because,
- word is that Ukrainians flanked the same, secured Tryforivka, Nova Kamianka, and Piatykhatky, about 10-15km south of Petropavlivka,
- in turn causing an outright 'stampede' of the surviving VDV.
Ironically, the Russians not only didn't 'blow up the bridge at Dudchany': as somebody corrected me here, today, this is actually a causeway. Thus, quite hard to blow up.
Foremost, the Russians then began spreading stories about 'God, Artillery & VKS' saving them by stopping the advance of the (destroyed-destroyed) 128th Mountain Brigade in that area (guess, that earns that brigade the honorary title 'destroyed-destryoed-destroyed', now). Seems, the Russians were ah so successful, that they are meanwhile 're-groupping' somewhere in the area west of Zmivka.
Now, before anybody starts crying 'map, draw a map': keep it cool, please. It's pointless. Provided this all is truth, and Ukrainians were really 'somewhere west of Zmivka' as of today, they could reach Nova Kakhovka tomorrow. And, I guess, I need not explaining what and where is Nova Kakhovka.
....in which case not only all of the XXII Army Corps, but the entire 49th CAA will have to find a way how to swim over the Dnipro...