“There is a Ukrainian flag over the hospital on Gagarina Street, where my grandparents’ house was. And that’s great,” said Dasha Zaryvna, an adviser to the chief of staff of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak. An image on social media shows Ukrainian soldiers raising a flag on the roof of a building, said to be in Vysokopilya. CNN cannot independently verify the location of the image. A post on a pro-Russian Telegram channel said on Sunday that Russian forces “withdrew in battle order from Vysokopilya (Berislav region). These are two neighboring settlements to the east and west of Vysokopilia, which had a population of around 5,000 before the war. Some context: Ukrainian forces appear to have made limited territorial gains in Kherson to date. However, the Institute for the Study of War said on Saturday that according to Ukrainian officials, the attack was “a deliberately methodical operation to degrade Russian forces and logistics, rather than an operation aimed at immediately recapturing large swaths of territory”. A Ukrainian official, Oleksiy Arestovych, told the Wall Street Journal on Saturday that the current goal of Ukrainian forces in the south is to “systematically grind down Putin’s military, and Ukrainian troops are slowly and systematically uncovering and destroying Russia’s operational logistics system with artillery. and strikes with precision weapons.”
