A Ukrainian officer in the region said Ukrainian units on the eastern bank of the Inhulets were pushing toward the Dnipro to the northeast of Kherson in an apparent attempt to divide Russian forces sandwiched between the two rivers.

“This is a planned slow operation to grind the enemy, saving the lives of our military and civilians,” Oleksiy Arestovych, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, wrote on Telegram early Tuesday. “Of course, many would like a large-scale offensive with news about our military’s capture of one settlement an hour. But we don’t fight like that. And our means are limited.”…

Ukrainian military officials said Tuesday that they had hit 13 Russian command centers across the Kherson region, as well as a Russian crossing of the Dnipro near the village of Lvove. Military officials advised residents of the region to stock up on food, water and medicine to prepare for the continuing assault…

For the last several days, Kirill Stremousov, one of the most visible Ukrainian political figures to have collaborated with the Russians in Kherson, has posted on Telegram from a new location that appears from the buildings in the background to be in the Russian city of Voronezh, according to an open-source intelligence researcher.