AFU General Staff tells when enemy will leave Kakhovka

The city of Kakhovka in Kherson Region will be liberated before the New Year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff has said

The General Staff said that the enemy was redeploying separate units and withdrawing part of its troops from Kakhovka and Novyy Kakhovka to the area of the Nizhniye Syrogozy settlement. The military are spreading information among local residents that Kakhovka will be abandoned by Russian troops by the end of this year, so those loyal to the occupants are offered to move to the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea.

The General Staff also notes that heavy fighting is taking place in the east of the country. Over the past 24 hours, units of the Ukrainian Defence Forces repulsed attacks by the occupying forces in more than 20 settlements. In particular, these included the following areas: Skoshchadka, Krasnopopopovka, Bilohorivka in Luhansk Region and Bakhmut, Obrosne, Zelenopolye, Andreevka, Marinka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka in Donetsk Region.

In the Kupyansk direction the enemy shelled the areas of Sinkovka, Orlyanka, Tabayevka, Berestovey and Vyshnevyi in Kharkiv region and Vladimirovka and Stelmakhovka in Luhansk region.

In the Liman direction - the positions of our troops near Makiivka, Ploshchadka, Chervonopopivka, Dibrova and Horne in the Luhansk region.

In Luhansk oblast, the occupiers continue to put pressure on local entrepreneurs and force them to re-register their businesses under Russian law