According to Ukraine reports, the Ukrainian army suffered huge losses in this area of Klinki, and the number of Ukraine soldiers killed and missing in the battle reached thousands, and I am afraid that the detailed data will be even more.
It is reported that Klinki is a small village located on the left bank of the Dnieper, and during the major counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army in 2023, the Ukrainian army crossed the Dnieper in October and established a bridgehead in Klingi. However, since the Russian army will dispatch the Aerospace Forces to carry out air strikes every day, the Ukrainian army will not be able to build pontoon bridges at all. Due to the inability to massively project troops across the river, in fact, the Ukrainian army's operation to build a bridgehead with Klinki was a failure.
It's just that in order to boost morale, the Ukraine military has always regarded the Klinki bridgehead as a successful case of the Ukrainian army's major counteroffensive to boost the morale of front-line soldiers. However, a battalion of the Ukrainian army in the Klinki region has suffered from tremendous psychological pressure for a long time, has no foreign aid, and cannot be evacuated, and has to be bombarded by Russian artillery shells every day.
Since the Ukrainian army's river-crossing troops have been suppressed by the Russian army's firepower, in the past period of time, the Ukrainian army has basically stopped this method of actively sending people to death, and the Ukrainian army has also taken the initiative to withdraw from the Klingi area.
The Ukrainian army, located on the west bank of the Dnieper, thought that good days were coming, and they could cross the river without continuing to risk death. However, in order to hold some positions on the Dnieper continent, the Ukraine military ordered that positions must be held. As a result, when the Russian army dispatched gliding guided bombs to strike, the Ukrainian army still suffered huge casualties.
A large number of Ukrainian troops hiding in the trenches still can't escape the bombs, and some Ukrainian troops can never wake up in their sleep, which also has a huge psychological trauma for some undetermined Ukraine soldiers. As a result, there was a situation where individual Ukrainian troops crossed the river and surrendered to the Russian army by themselves, and later there were 4 people who crossed the Dnieper River with plastic bottles tied to surrender to the Russian army.
What makes the Ukraine military even more angry is that now there are 17 Ukrainian troops who have surrendered to the Russian army in groups.
The reason why these 17 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered was that they couldn't drink clean water, and they thought that it was pointless to continue the battle. It is alleged that this part of the Ukrainian army was originally deployed on a small island in the Dnieper River delta, but under the continuous artillery fire of the Russian army, the island lost its pure water supply. The lack of clean water for a long time has caused the Ukrainian army to break down, and some people have been forced to use water from the swamp quagmire, but many Ukrainian soldiers are unwell due to the substandard water quality.
In this case, the Ukrainian troops, located on the island, explained the situation to their superiors and asked to withdraw from their positions. Although the commander agreed, he received no instructions to retreat.
The Ukrainian army on the island suddenly realized that in fact, they had become "outcasts" and became cannon fodder for the Russian army.
If they are trapped on the island, starved to death and thirsty to death, these Ukrainian soldiers will not even get a basic pension. In this case, the 17 Ukrainian soldiers simply picked on their sons.
Some analysts pointed out that in fact, within the Ukraine army, it is also divided into three, six, nine and so on. The Ukrainian army trapped on the island is obviously not a descendant unit, and it is very likely that these people are acting as cannon fodder by catching "strong men". These Ukraine soldiers who have been mobilized into the army basically lack military training and have a very underground ability to survive in the wild.
Those who are lucky enough to get supplies will be able to get supplies, and those who are unlucky will not receive reinforcements, and they will either be killed by the Russian army, or starve to death and die of thirst. And the real Ukraine troops are resting in the safety of the West Bank.
With the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Klinki, this bridgehead has been completely lost. The Russian army has begun to focus on cleaning up the positions of the Ukrainian army on the small island of the Dnieper. The most direct way taken by the Russian army is artillery and fighter bombardment, if Ukraine soldiers do not want to become cannon fodder, they can only survive by crossing the river and surrendering to the Russian army.