A soldier with the call sign " He woke up at 10:00 am on Friday with only three hours of sleep after a night shift..

Standing in front of a destroyed school, a 25-year-old Ukrainian soldier explained that his task now is exactly the same as in March, when Ukrainian forces ousted Russians from a village located 30 kilometers from Nikolaev and Kherson.

“We will liberate Kherson, this is not even an expectation, but for sure. But we will not launch a counteroffensive until we have more artillery,” a Ukrainian soldier told The Telegraph..

For the army of Ukraine, opposing the occupying forces of Russia, Kherson has a symbolic and strategic meaning.. The government in Kyiv and its Western allies are looking forward to the start of the counteroffensive. But military commanders want to build up more manpower and weapons before launching an offensive..

" And only in this way can we move forward,” Phoenix said..

The Telegraph agrees it's not hard to understand Ukrainian military demands. The place where the Ukrainian army stopped the march of the Russians to the west is an open field that stretches for many kilometers. And the whole landscape of the south is. In fact, this is a mosaic of fields and thin forest belts between them.. Such territory can hardly be called favorable even for defense, not to mention moving forward and destroying hostile fortified positions.. As in other sectors of the front, in recent months, neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces have been able to move very far due to constant artillery shelling..

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The publication reminds that Kherson became the first and only regional center that the Russian army was able to capture since the beginning of the invasion in February.. Now Russian forces seem more vulnerable here than on any other sector of the front.. About 20 thousand Russian soldiers on the right bank of the Dnieper remained almost completely cut off from support after the destruction of three bridges across the river. The successful liberation of Kherson will prove to Ukrainians in other occupied cities that they too can be saved.. It can also convince the allies in the West to continue to supply the Ukrainian army with the necessary means.. Although many Western countries, faced with rising energy prices and accelerating inflation, may tire of a war that risks reaching a debilitating stalemate.

Franz Stefan Gadi, an expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, has calculated that in order to conduct a successful counteroffensive, Ukraine needs half a dozen new mechanized and tank brigades, each of which would consist of about 4,000 soldiers.. The start of an offensive without these forces threatens to end in irreparable losses.. The army of Ukraine may lose the most combat-ready military. A Ukrainian soldier with the call sign “Psych” told The Telegraph that even for the most experienced units, it is not an easy task to free Kherson.. Because "

US HIMARS artillery systems and British M270s have greatly influenced the course of the war in recent times, allowing Ukraine to strike Russian positions far behind the front lines without risking its own military.. Now there's a whole different war going on.

“We bleed their veins,” said anesthesiologist Serhiy, who works in one of the Ukrainian units in the Kherson region..

These " But it became difficult for Russian troops on the right bank to maintain this flow after Ukrainian forces destroyed bridges across the Dnieper.. Phoenix said that Russian soldiers also changed their tactics.

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" They tried to win by numbers. Now they are mostly on the defensive.. And if they want to attack, they first use artillery, and only then go on the offensive in small groups,” said the Ukrainian military.

Ukraine's allies announce major new defense aid package. The United States has pledged $3 billion worth of weapons, and Germany - 500 million euros. But all these weapons will not fall into the hands of the Ukrainian army soon.. It will take months, maybe even years.. The next package of heavy weapons will arrive at the Kherson front only in 6 weeks, said Psycho. According to realistic calculations, the Ukrainian army will be able to conduct a counteroffensive and liberate Kherson by Christmas.

President Volodymyr Zelensky faced a difficult choice. Either he will allow the situation to remain at an impasse, risking perpetuating an unacceptable status quo, or he will take heavy losses in the hope of gaining an advantage.

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“Ukrainian Armed Forces are under political pressure to launch a counter-offensive before Russian forces consolidate their defensive positions and before winter starts,” Gadi said..

According to him, Ukraine risks spending a lot of resources and getting very little benefit.. And the flow of supplies from Western donors is very small.

“This could be dangerous for the Ukrainian fighting force in the medium term,” the expert explained..