Talk:2022 Kherson counteroffensive

Requested move 31 December 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Moved to 2022 Kherson counteroffensive. There is consensus to move, and participants have brought up a point that the proposed title is a bit wordy and a shorter title 2022 Kherson counteroffensive has support among the participants. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 04:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive → 2022 Ukrainian Kherson counteroffensive – In the past, in this talk page, this title was rejected shortly after the liberation of Kherson city because there were reports of Ukrainian incursions to the other bank of the Dnipro, so the counteroffensive could be deemed as still ongoing. More than a month later, it is clear this has not been the case. Discussion about the liberation of the rest of the south of Ukraine comes from a possible counteroffensive by Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, specially to Melitopol. The front around Kherson is and will be static for a while, it appears. Therefore, I think we should define this counteroffensive as exclusively aiming for Kherson. Otherwise, that it has already ended and that it was a Ukrainian victory as the infobox says, is nonsense. Super  Ψ   Dro  12:16, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * why not '2022 Kherson counteroffensive'?—blindlynx 18:50, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Support  per nomination 🍁 DinoSoupCanada 🍁 (talk) 23:18, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support 2022 Ukrainian Kherson counteroffensive, weakly support proposed title. It's an improvement but a bit wordy. Red   Slash  23:12, 31 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Support Most media have called it the Kherson Counteroffensive for a while now, and the Kherson Counteroffensive is probably the common name, as opposed to the Southern Counteroffensive.: Physeters ✉ 03:22, 1 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Support I created the page and I support this because most RS are referring to this as the Kherson offensive. Additionally, if a counteroffensive were to take place in Zaporizhzhia, we would have two conflicting "southern" counteroffensives. Renaming this the "Kherson" counteroffensive removes ambiguity about further counteroffensives. PilotSheng (talk) 00:52, 2 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Do we need the word "Ukrainian" in the title? Like blindlynx, I think "2022 Kherson counteroffensive" would probably work better. HappyWithWhatYouHaveToBeHappyWith (talk) 18:43, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The Counter-Offensive per se was not an ukranian victory
As the title says, Ukraine did not successfully militarily reconquered the the territory west of the Dniper, as the offensive per se endedeither in a stalemate or faliure with ukraine suffering heavy losses due to superior enemy's firepower until the Russians simply withdrew to the other bank of the river, followed by the ukrainian army establishing control over the areas left by the Russian armed forces, hence I suggest to change the outcome phrase to something along the lines of "Stalemate, followed by russian withdrawal" Mattia332 (talk) 14:33, 7 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Conquering the capital city of the region in a month without having to get bogged down in urban warfare is a "stalemate or a failure"? The counteroffensive's goal was the city of Kherson, it's not like they tried to immediately assault left-bank positions and got beaten back. It simply wasn't their goal to immediately liberate the whole oblast. The outcome is fine as is. HappyWith (talk) 15:22, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Cope, as they say. Nicodene (talk) 22:39, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with your overall stance, but this is a personal attack which doesn’t belong on this website. HappyWith (talk) 01:24, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * the objective was achieved and russia no longer controls the main city of the oblast, that’s a victory. the fact that you didn’t come back to defend this comment makes me think you came just to express your personal views. SSEdwards (talk) 14:03, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Rewriting the start of the article for clarity in preview
Would it be possible to rewrite the first two sentences of the article to be more clear in previews on wikipedia, like it's done on the similar 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive ? Something like :

The 2022 Kherson counteroffensive was a counteroffensive launched by Ukraine on 29 August 2022 to expel Russian forces occupying the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts. 178.23.152.132 (talk) 08:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Casualties section error
I wanted correct an error, but I don't have edit permission here, so if someone with edit permission could make the correction it would be much appreciated. Here's the error.

In the "Casualties" section it says: Casualties and losses For Russia: 9,500 killed and wounded [23]

However going directly to the source article (reference number 23), it reads: "the Ukrainian army lost more than 9,500 people killed and wounded between August and September"

So it is the other way around: For Ukraine, casualties = 9,500 (according to ref. no. 23)

Thanks in advance to whomever can fix this error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farmhand21 (talk • contribs) 10:14, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Status of Battle
I was thinking if there's still a possibility of having the status of the counter offensive as ongoing as Ukraine has still been continuing to launch attacks in the Kherson region and as well as the fact that they had not fully captured the whole region which makes it only minimally successful as the goal of the offensive was to capture the whole region which was not achieved. LegendaryChristopher (talk) 21:42, 27 December 2023 (UTC)