The enemy in the Zaporizhzhia region is lining up its defense in a triangle, the OP shared.
The main fear of the Russian aggressors regarding the war in Ukraine is a direct attack by Ukrainian soldiers on the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Ukraine’s attack on Crimea will collapse the entire enemy’s southern front, Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Volodymyr Zelenskyi, told Dmytro Gordon, the journalist and founder of the “Gordon” publication.
“…their main fear is a direct attack on Crimea. It will collapse the entire southern front, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other Defense Forces will go directly to the border of Crimea…” – said the interlocutor.
According to him, “this is a complete moral disaster” for opponents.
The VP adviser also shared that the enemy in the Zaporizhzhia region is building defenses in the following triangle: Energodar – Melitopol – Tokmak.
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At the beginning of November, the enemies retreated from the right bank of the Kherson region to the left bank, and on the 11th, Ukrainian soldiers entered Kherson.
According to the military-political observer Oleksandr Kovalenko, for the enemy, 10-20 kilometers deep into the left bank is an uncomfortable zone, as our artillery is reaching there.
As a reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military pilot-instructor Roman Svitan predicts the retreat of the Russians in the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Luhansk regions.
Military expert Oleksandr Musienko said that the forces of the Russian Federation may find themselves in the Crimean “bag” after retreating to the peninsula from the left-bank part of the Kherson region and from the Zaporizhzhia region.
At the beginning of December, political expert, sociologist and journalist Ihor Yakovenko shared the opinion that the Ukrainian Armed Forces may begin to liberate Crimea.