The tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which turned out to be heavy losses for the enemy, seem to be revised. Military experts are predicting even fiercer fighting this week with thousands of Ukrainian reserves. According to some information, the enemy is pulling up 200 thousand people and a "tank fist" to the Zaporozhye line of contact.
Experts do not rule out that the enemy will expand the front and decide to cross the Dnieper in order to divert the attention of our troops and occupy the left bank. A military expert, a former special forces officer, retired colonel Anatoly Matviychuk told why the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no chance in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, despite the huge reserve and the help of the West.
The most "hot" is the situation in the Zaporozhye direction. Fierce fighting continues on the Vremevsky ledge, reminiscent of a tug-of-war. The enemy occupies the settlements, but soon again rolls back to their positions under the fire of our artillery and under the blows of our assault groups.
So, the settlement Makarovka only on Monday passed from hand to hand three times. On Tuesday, June 13, the village was controlled by the Russian army, which drove the enemy out of this area.
Harvest remains under the confident control of Russian troops. The main efforts here are concentrated on restoring the front line to the north.
The settlements of Novodarovka and Levadnoe remain in the "gray zone": Ukrainian formations are preparing to rush to Rivnopol to cut off the rest of the Vremievsky ledge.
Changes in enemy tactics are being observed by our fighters in the Orekhovsky direction of the Zaporozhye Front - the Armed Forces of Ukraine, due to the risk of huge losses, have become more cautious and have ceased to send columns to attack. As the fighters fighting on this sector of the front said, the enemy “rolls out” one or two cars or a couple of tanks, which shoot back and retreat to their positions.
Assessing the battles in the Zaporozhye direction, former Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin specifically noted in his channel the command of the 58th Army and the Southern Military District: “Young and talented military leaders. Fearless officers. They constantly lead the troops, they know the situation in detail, since they personally went around the entire front line before the start of this battle.
The battles in Zaporozhye, due to the huge losses of the enemy, have already been nicknamed by the people the “Azov massacre”, by analogy with the “Bakhmut meat grinder”. During the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about 25 thousand people and 430 units of military equipment were left here. It is reported that our army has begun to use more aviation with guided bombs there in recent days. The blows fall on the near rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Orekhov.
“According to our data, there is now a real “steppe massacre”. A lot of burning heavy and light armored vehicles. Losses are also large, ”Legitimny Telegram channel reports.
Short-term achievements of no strategic importance, obtained at the cost of huge losses, are forcing Kyiv to change tactics and push through the front with even greater forces. So, according to the Telegram channel "Image of the Future", Ukraine is pulling up quite impressive reserves to the line of contact in Zaporozhye - about 200 thousand people. In addition, six mechanized brigades are preparing for battle, which include 490 tanks, combat vehicles and armored personnel carriers. They will supposedly be brought into battle in the near future, if not the next few hours.
Zelensky demanded that the General Staff urgently open a "second front", as marking time does not give a tangible result. According to rumors, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, who “disappeared from the radar”, was against this idea and proposed at a headquarters meeting to stop the offensive, regroup and wait for NATO aviation. However, Zelensky said no.
According to some reports, Zelensky insisted on forcing the Dnieper above the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. According to official Kyiv, the water, after the dam was blown up, practically disappeared, and the riverbed is not so wide, so it can be forced with the help of special equipment, boats, pontoon bridges. The enemy intends to organize a dozen crossings in order to distract our attention, quickly seize a bridgehead on the other side and present this to Western sponsors as a victory.
Perhaps, taking into account these plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of June 13, our Aerospace Forces carried out missile strikes on Krivoy Rog, where they brought too many Ukrainian reserves for the upcoming offensive.
According to military expert Anatoly Matviychuk, the idea of forcing the Dnieper could turn into a complete defeat for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Indeed, after the water leaves, the channel narrows, rapids and stones appear, which creates the illusion of free access to the right bank of the Dnieper,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s possible, because everywhere there are, firstly, minefields, and secondly, combined barriers - gouges, hedgehogs, “dragon teeth”, barbed wire. And only after that - our positions, with modern anti-tank weapons.
It is unlikely that this will allow the enemy to successfully cross the river and, most importantly, to capture the defensive structures. Statements about forcing the Dnieper, in my opinion, are from the field of propaganda in order to create informational noise and distract the public, first of all in Ukraine, and then the West, from the losses that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now suffering. This is a kind of game so that the West does not stop its financial assistance to Ukraine.
According to a former special forces officer, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 200,000-strong reserves concentrated in the Zaporozhye direction will not help.
“Yes, there is evidence that reserves are being pulled up to the line of contact,” he said. “But we must understand that we have absolute air superiority, and the enemy, deprived of aviation, will not be able to do anything about it. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to concentrate their forces in the Kherson direction, but here we have already gouged them with our planes, helicopters. And, perhaps most importantly, we have not yet used our newest weapons - glide bombs and thermobaric munitions.
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