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Ukraine loses more than 1,000 men in battle for single village. The perilous fight to establish a bridgehead in a southern Kherson fishing village has been described as a suicide mission for soldiers. More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are feared to have been killed during a symbolic battle for a single village on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

The perilous months-long fight to establish a bridgehead in the village of Krynky, a southern Kherson fishing village, has been described as a suicide mission for soldiers, in an operation seen by commanders as crucial as for pinning down Russian forces in the area. investigation by Slidstvo, the Kyiv-based news website, found that at least 262 soldiers had died and 778 are still missing after nine months of struggling to maintain a foothold in the settlement.

Ukrainian marines were sent on a daring raid across the Dnipro, the river that bisects the country, in late October last year, in an attempt to establish a bridgehead in Russian-held territory.
The cross-river incursion was made possible after Russian forces were forced to retreat from the city of Kherson in November 2022.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...e-village/