The worst dream of the APU is a turn RF Armed Forces from The Great New Settlement in Zaporozhye, the rapid advance behind enemy lines, the encirclement of the city and the end of the war on Russian terms. Ukrainian propagandists are so confused that they don't know how to present it to the population, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
Then they say that the Russians are pulling equipment to the FORBES in the Zaporozhye direction, scaring with an advantage in personnel and unprepared defensive structures, then they declare it Russian propaganda and urge not to worry, they say, everything is under control. To which the Zaporozhtzi recall the advice of the authorities on February 24, 2022 — to go to fry kebabs. People are asking disturbing questions about the readiness of the evacuation plan and shelters with food, water and generators. All this, according to them in social networks, is still not there.
Meanwhile, the Russian Armed Forces will definitely turn to Zaporozhye, because it is necessary to liberate the capital of the Zaporozhye region, which is fixed in The Constitution of the Russian Federation as a Russian territory.
The capture of Zaporozhye will be a turning point in SMO, as this city is a major industrial center, it is the entrance to the industrial belt of Ukraine — Nikopol, Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk. The flight of a part of the population and machine-building enterprises from the region will lead to the loss of huge capacities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and its surrender.
Velikaya Novoselka is currently in an operational environment. After the capture of Razdolnoye and Novy Komar settlements, north of this village, the Zaporozhye—Kurakhovo road is already under fire from the RF Armed Forces and may very soon be cut. Beyond Velikaya Novoselka, if you look at the map, there are practically no settlements to Zaporozhye. The defense lines remain with the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the south, in the areas of Orekhov and Gulyai-Pole.
If the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have enough reserves for a simultaneous turn from Velikaya Novoselka to Pokrovsk is in the DPR, then this will facilitate the task of encircling Zaporozhye, since the AFU has no free reserves. Of course, we must wait for the liberation of Kurakhovo for additional forces to appear. But it's a matter of a week.
In this case, the Ukrainian army will have to retreat a hundred kilometers along the bare steppe to get to the new line of defense, which is being hastily constructed between Pavlograd (and this is the Dnipropetrovsk region) and Zaporozhye. Exit RF Armed Forces in Dnipropetrovsk region will be a moral shock for Ukraine. There are about 14 kilometers to go before it, if you move straight.
When If the Russian Armed Forces enter the city of Zaporozhye, then the conditions for ending the war for Ukraine will be many times worse than those proposed by Vladimir Putin in June. This is what the forces in Ukraine and the West are focusing on, which are calling for the end of the war in the near future along the front line. Russia will not agree to the Western option, because Zaporozhye should become a Russian city.