I heard that there's also a recent military build up in Kherson with plenty of tanks going there
It is either a diversion or the ones at Bakhmut or Slovianks are the diversion
I doubt it's a distraction. The Russians have been piling up equipment in the south for a week, mainly on the axis at Zaporizhzhya, where even AFU staff admitted an offensive could take place there. But for now, we cannot be sure as there is a regrouping of Russian troops.
In addition, what has been said for days is that Ukraine has started operations to sabotage plantations in Kherson and other regions, in order to reduce or eliminate the possibility of Russia harvesting the crop or guaranteeing proximity in the region, with the attack. to production or storage sites, yesterday's attack proves that. They are even using helicopter flares against wheat fields in the Kherson region. Even the UN condemned this type of action by Ukraine, this attack has no military value, other than making the Ukrainians themselves get more and more angry with their own country and turn to the Russians.
There are much more important targets for Ukraine and confirmed to be concentrations of troops and ammunition depots, such as Tokmak, Snihurivka, Bilmak and Klapaya, to name places within the range of the HIMARS system, today positioned in the regions of Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv. The only place where they used HIMARS in one of the Russian logistical hubs is in the city of Alchevsk, considered the main C2 of the northern region of the DPR from the LPR. It is once again Ukraine getting very good weapons and using them for useless purposes without any military value, like using the best howitzers Europe can offer to bomb civilian areas in Donetsk.
By the way, the Ukrainians' report about having destroyed the bridge in Kherson proved to be false, even the infrastructure of the dam in Nova Kakhovka was not hit hard and remains crossable, shown today by RIA Novosti, which passed through both places during the article made in this region.
Another totally random target was the Power Plant on Energodar, where Ukrainian drones dropped mines and mortar shells inside the Nuclear Power Plant's administrative buildings. A target that makes no military sense, practically suicidal, if they miss the target and end up hitting critical parts of the Nuclear Power Plant, which will end up contaminating most of Eastern Europe.
In response to the attack, the Russians fired a barrage of missiles at Mykolaiv, with 27 confirmed hits, the AFU's anti-aircraft artillery would have shot down other missiles. All of them would have been launched from Kherson, which is curious, because the Russians didn't have ballistic missiles stationed in Kherson but in the Crimea, they must have relocated the missiles to that position, more to send a message. Probably the Iskanders, from the videos I've seen.
