Ukrainian forces have raised the national flag on the Kinburn Spit after Russian troops withdrew from their positions.
According to Ukraine’s Southern Territorial Defense Forces Command on Thursday, Ukrainian strikes forced Russian troops to retreat, prompting surviving personnel to evacuate and abandon defensive positions.
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“The blue-and-yellow flag is on the Kinburn Spit,” the command said in a statement.
The Kinburn Spit, located between the Dnipro-Buh estuary and the Black Sea, has remained a strategically important area throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
It allows Russia to control access to the ports of Mykolaiv and Kherson and has been used to launch attacks on southern Ukraine.
Military analysts have long argued that regaining control of the Kinburn Spit would strengthen Ukraine’s position in the Black Sea and could support future operations toward occupied Crimea.
“We are not stopping,” the Ukrainian military said. “One day our tanks will reach Dzhankoi,” it added, referring to the city in northern Crimea.
Continued strikes
Kyiv forces have continued operations to weaken Russian positions in southern Ukraine.
On June 9, Ukrainian partisan group Atesh said units of Russia’s 337th Regiment had begun abandoning some positions because deliveries of ammunition, fuel, and food had been cut off.
The development follows earlier reports of Ukraine’s elite Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) kicking off an ambitious strike campaign to demolish the Kremlin’s deliveries of military materials to frontline troops, including those supplying the Crimea peninsula and eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region.
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Strike operations are carried out by a mix of short and mid-range drones designed to hit vehicles, depots, and infrastructure along occupied routes.
USF commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi said the strikes – officially designated “middle strike” – aim to force Russian withdrawals by choking off logistics supplying occupied Crimea.
While attacks on Russian logistics supplying Crimea have intensified in recent weeks, there are no signs of an imminent Ukrainian offensive to retake the Crimean peninsula.
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