If we study the defensive line toward Zaporizhzhia, we see that Russian troops have successfully entered the settlement of Danylivka in the direction of Dnipropetrovsk, attacking the Ukrainian defensive line from two sides all the way to Hulyaipole, according to posts on social media.
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As they emphasized, they are forming a pincer and not attacking frontally. “Soon the large, well-fortified Ukrainian strongpoints will run out, and the Russians will gain a broad operational space all the way to Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk,” they noted.
The same sources explained that the Russians will simply bypass the last defensive line, forming a pocket that can be easily closed. In addition, the weather is also helping them. “Fog has been very frequent along the front line lately, and this gives an advantage to the Russian forces,” they wrote.
Zelensky has decided to redeploy reserves in this direction, but there are not enough men. They claim that those reserves were lost in the Pokrovsk pocket. “On top of all this, Russian troops have captured 50 percent of Novopavlivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” they added.
The Ukrainian military leadership is in a difficult position, because the Russians have concentrated larger formations in many places and are carrying out offensive actions against the Ukrainian defenses. Where there are established defensive lines and strongpoints, Putin’s forces have a harder time, but once they break through these, the AFU will be in serious trouble.
It appears we are not far from the point at which Russian troops in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions will either break through the defensive lines or simply bypass them. And in open, unprotected terrain it will be much harder to stop them…
As for the current situation, this may be the moment when the number of mobilized troops not only fails to compensate for the losses, but the reserves themselves are already being heavily depleted.
The Kursk “adventure,” as well as the battles around Pokrovsk and Kupiansk, may prove very costly, and since the Russians are attacking in many places at once, the (now barely existing) reserve units would have to be deployed across too many sectors. In this regard, there are no miracles.
That is why the Russians may be advancing so quickly in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, and why the collapse of the AFU may be drawing near…
