Russian shelling on a residential area of the southern frontline city of Kherson killed two people.

Russian shelling killed two people in residential area of Kherson

The current pace of operations of Ukrainian forces does not suggest that the situation has reached a dead end or that Ukraine is unable to take back big areas of its territories

Ukrainian forces conducted slow and gradual campaigns to block clusters of Russians on the eastern bank of Kherson Oblast and limited ground attacks on the west bank between August and November 2022, before finally forcing the Russians to withdraw from the right bank in mid-November

The current Ukrainian counter-offensive is less dramatic and rapid than the one that liberated much of Kharkiv Oblast, more successful than the failed Russian winter offensive, and generally most like the slower but ultimately successful Kherson counteroffensive in its pace and initial progress