Why is the Ukrainian port city of Kherson so important - Glen Grant, a senior analyst at the Baltic Security Foundation, told in an interview for Forces News British specialized military source.
"It's the only regional centre that Russia actually has captured. Most of the other places have been small towns and villages," Glen Grant said.
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Kherson sits in a strategic location west of the Dnipro river, which splits Ukraine in two.
Controlling Kherson importantly would mean controlling the water supply to Russian-occupied Crimea.
Mr Grant explained its geographical significance: "It's also at the end of the canal that goes to Crimea. If you hold Kherson, you can send water down to Crimea. If you don't hold Kherson, you can't send water down to Crimea.
"And then there's a third thing which is that the troops in the south have never been the strongest. You can see that at the moment in that most of the Russian troops there are in defensive positions.
"If they do actually take Kherson, then there are going to be an awful lot of Russian soldiers in the south."
As Defense Express reported, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were on the way to complete russian army isolation near Kherson. We also wrote that Ukrainian military cut off the railway bridge near Kherson.
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