General Staff: Fighting continues in occupied territories of Kherson region

Kateryna Tyshchenko – Monday, 4 April 2022, 19:11

Fighting continues in the occupied territories of the Kherson region, civilians are forced to help fit out the positions of Russian occupying forces.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as of 18:00 on 4 April, on Facebook

According to the General Staff: "Fighting continues on the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region.

The enemy has enforced stricter checks at checkpoints around Nova Kakhovka. The invaders are resorting to detaining civilians and forcing them to fit out [Russian troops’] positions. Cases of illegal seizure of vehicles from the local residents have become more frequent."

Details: The General Staff also reports that in the occupied city of Izium, in the Kharkiv region, Russian troops are carrying out "filtration measures" and forcibly deport local residents to the territory of the Russian Federation.

In addition, a field hospital for wounded Russian soldiers of the 237th Tank Regiment and the 752nd Motorised Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Motorised Rifle Division was set up in a school building in Izium.

In the town of Polohy in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops captured the central district hospital and rigged the grounds with explosives. Staff and patients were warned not to return to the hospital. Wounded soldiers of the occupying forces remained in the hospital.

On the Siversky front, the consequences of the Russian occupation forces’ activities are being eliminated.

The General Staff also reports that the losses of the 20th Motorised Rifle Division of the Russian Federation (Kamyshin, Volgograd Region) of the 8th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District, including the 33rd, 255th, and 294th Motorised Rifle Regiments – which have now returned to their permanent locations – amount to up to 40% of personnel, weapons, and military equipment. Those soldiers who were lucky enough to return are now trying to retire.

The existing military medical facilities in Russia and Belarus do not allow for the treatment of a large number of Russian soldiers who have been wounded in Ukraine. Thus, the medical staff of the central district hospital in Glushkovo, in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, has been transferred to an intensified duty regime. Between 29 March and 2 April, around 100 wounded Russian soldiers were transferred to the Glushkovo hospital from the Sumy region of Ukraine.

Russian military leadership is trying to make up for their loss of officers at the expense of officers from higher military educational institutions. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Military Academy of Communications in St Petersburg is urgently training officers in order to replenish the ranks of the Russian military.