The occupiers brought recently mobilized Russians to the occupied Kherson. The invaders are preparing for street battles.

This was stated by the head of the General Directorate of the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, in a comment to CNN.

Russia is strengthening Kherson with recruits who have recently mobilized. They will probably be used as cannon fodder.

Kyrylo Budanov

The head of the Defence Intelligence noted that at the same time, the aggressor country was taking its puppets out of the city and surrounding areas.

The withdrawal of the occupying forces will accelerate when Ukraine "takes the Novaya Kakhovka dam under its artillery control," concluded the head of Ukraine's military intelligence.