Kinburn Spit is now more controlled by Russia than Ukraine - Colonel Yerin

The head of the Joint Press Center of the Defense Forces, Colonel Evgeny Yerin, said that the Kinburn Spit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be liberated during the de-occupation of the rest of the Kherson region. During the telethon, he added that now this territory is mostly controlled by the enemy side..

Yerin explained that liberating her as a separate territory is wrong: \? Because there should be a land corridor to the Kinburn Spit. And only in this case it will be expedient"

Now this territory is under the fire control of the Ukrainian military..

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Recall that the Kinburn Spit is the only place in the Nikolaev region that has still not been de-occupied from the Russian military.. Now there is a military operation in silence mode, according to OK " I also explain to the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the specificity of the region lies in geographical factors that allow the enemy to pull up reserves there.

In the meantime, the US Institute for the Study of War explains that the Kinburn Spit is of great strategic importance for the further de-occupation of southern Ukraine. Control over it will allow the Defense Forces to weaken Russian attacks on the western coast of the Black Sea and strengthen their own maritime presence..