Russian forces are reportedly withdrawing from parts of the Kinburn Spit in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region after Ukrainian strikes disrupted supply routes to the area. Atesh, a Ukrainian partisan movement, said Monday that units of Russia’s 337th Regiment had begun leaving positions due to logistical difficulties and personnel shortages, citing information allegedly provided by one of its agents embedded within Russia’s Dnipro Grouping of Forces.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The partisan group said deliveries of food, fuel and ammunition to Russian positions on the spit have effectively ceased after Ukrainian forces targeted supply routes serving the area. “The occupiers were forced to urgently evacuate from the Kinburn Spit,” Atesh wrote, adding that Russian troops remaining on the peninsula no longer have sufficient personnel to maintain defensive positions. The claim came amid reports of intensified Ukrainian mid-range attacks against Russian supply routes to occupied Ukraine, including those supplying the Crimea peninsula and eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region. The Kinburn Spit is a narrow sandy peninsula stretching between the Black Sea and the Dnipro-Buh estuary, roughly 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of the city of Mykolaiv. It is positioned at the Dnipro River’s outlet into the Black Sea.
Russians Leave Ukraine’s Kinburn Spit – Why the Fuss?
Observers have previously argued that the narrow, sandy strip of land could pave the way to the liberation of Crimea.
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