U.S. Backs Ukraine's Advance vs Russia With More Weapons

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has confirmed the simultaneous advances of Ukraine in the Kherson, Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts, Kyiv Independent reported.

Photo Insert: Ukrainian forces have severed two Russian ground communication lines in northern Kherson Oblast, pushing Russian units south of the Kherson-Dnipropetrovsk Oblast border toward the Beryslav area.

These advances are crippling Russian attempts to transfer additional ammunition, reserves, mobilized men, and means of defense to frontline positions.

ISW noted that Ukrainian forces have severed two Russian ground communication lines in northern Kherson Oblast, pushing Russian units south of the Kherson-Dnipropetrovsk Oblast border toward the Beryslav area.

To support Ukraine’s advance, the Pentagon has dispatched a new $625 million security assistance package for Kyiv, including four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and associated ammunition, 16 new 155mm howitzers with 75,000 rounds, 500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds and 1,000 advanced 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems.

Also shipped were 16 shorter-range 105mm howitzers, 30,000 rounds for 120mm mortars, 200 MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles and 200,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, obstacle emplacement equipment, and Claymore anti-personnel munitions.

Ukraine has advanced 30 kilometers into Kherson Oblast and liberated Arkhangelske, Starosillia, Velyka Oleksandrivka, Davydiv Brid and Dudchany. This came as the Russian Federation Council, the Russian parliament's upper house, rubber-stamped on Oct. 4 the illegal annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts following its approval by the Constitutional Court and the State Duma, the parliament's lower house.

The global community considers Putin’s annexation as bogus.

Forbes Russia has reported that 700,000 people have left Russia since mobilization began, citing sources close to Russia's Presidential Administration.

Putin announced the mobilization of conscripts for the war against Ukraine on Sept. 21. In early September Russia’s state statistics agency estimated that 419,000 people had left Russia since Jan. 1 - a figure that reflects massive emigration since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. This is double the number of Russians who emigrated in the same period in 2021.

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