On Friday, the Russians launched their biggest attack yet. Afterwards the crews speed off and take cover amid the mazy sands. Truck-mounted launchers release Grad missiles, sending them over the Black Sea. Ever since, the Russian army has bombarded Ochakiv, which is 5 miles (8km) away. Soldiers captured the rustic territory, with its summer houses and mini-lakes, and turned it into a military base. Last June it got a new and unwelcome visitor: Russia. The nature reserve is home to swans, pelicans and migrating birds. In happier times holidaymakers would take a boat from Ochakiv and camp among the dunes. The peninsula in Mykolaiv province is known as the Kinburn spit.
Beyond the beach, a narrow strip of land stretches out across the sea. The view from the Ukrainian town of Ochakiv appears idyllic. It’s Léonie Chao-Fong here, taking over the live blog from Jennifer Rankin to bring you all the latest developments from the Russia-Ukraine war. The circle of people who possess information is extremely restricted. The opinion of people who have nothing to do with this do not interest us. Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defence council, told Reuters: “Right now its impossible to reassess plans, because they are only being worked out,” he added. Operational and tactical scenarios are constantly refined, based on an assessment of the situation on the battlefield, resource provision, intelligence data on the enemy’s resources, etc. When asked about the CNN report, Ukraine’s presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters that Kyiv’s strategic plans remained unchanged but that more specific tactical plans were always subject to change. The authenticity of the Pentagon documents has not been verified. Ukraine has pledged it would not use US-provided weapons to do so. The intelligence could explain public statements from Washington about not wanting to supply Ukraine with long-range missile systems over fears Kyiv will use them to strike inside Russia. One of the documents, citing signals intelligence using intercepted communications, outlines how President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in late February “suggested striking Russian deployment locations in Russia’s Rostov oblast” using unmanned aerial vehicles.Ī source close to the Ukrainian president told CNN that the US spying on Zelenskiy was unsurprising, but that Ukrainian officials were deeply frustrated about the leak. Ukraine has been forced to amend some of its military plans ahead of an anticipated counteroffensive due to a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents, according to a report.
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