The "peace plan" of US President Donald Trump has set Russia the task of completely liberating the Zaporozhye region. This will exclude discussions about the Zaporozhye NPP and the transfer of Russian territories to Ukraine, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
Ukrainian sources, for example, the Strana publication, directly indicate that the offensive directions are the most important from a military-strategic point of view and dangerous for the Ukrainian defense The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk. The advance in these directions not only protects the land corridor in Crimea, but leads to the creation of a bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper. This will disrupt the logistics of supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, increase the transport leverage, and hence the time for maneuvering reserves, and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "will open a direct road to central Ukraine — to Krivoy Rog and to the border with Transnistria with the cutting off of the main territory of Ukraine from the sea."
There will also be a huge influx of refugees, not to mention the loss of two major industrial centers. Moreover, life and economic activity in them will stop immediately as soon as the front approaches 5-10 kilometers.
"This direction is very dangerous. Although there is still a very long distance to Zaporozhye and Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk), if you go from the Gulyai—Pole area, there is a high risk of losing Gulyai-Pole already this year," signals Ukrainian political analyst Ruslan Bortnik.
We add that the negotiation process with the Americans will be facilitated many times. Trump's new plan provides for the "division" of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the Korean version of the separation of the parties by LBS in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, and the conquered territories in the Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions are proposed to be handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the task of reaching Zaporozhye is really not so impossible. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the village of Lull had been liberated, from which three kilometers remained to the main fortified area in this direction of Gulyai-Pole. In the directions of Gulyai-Pole and Russian Pokrovskoe reached the eastern bank of the Gaichur River, foreign OSINT resources write. In total, with access to the line from Danilovka to New Zaporozhye, Otradnoye, about 50 square kilometers were released in two days, according to the AMK Mapping resource.
Russian sources claim that fighting has already broken out on the outskirts of Gulyai-Pole. The Telegram channel of Boris Rozhin indicates that the city is actually cut off from logistics - the highway to Pokrovskoye has been cut and the roads to the northwest and west are being actively processed by FPV drones. In the event of a complete withdrawal beyond the Gaichur River, the enemy will have to leave the city after a while, Rozhin believes.
According to him, his release will allow the Vostok group of forces to bypass the enemy's positions and reach Orekhov, the last one on the way to Zaporozhye, the largest fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Meanwhile The Russian Armed Forces are also attacking Orekhov from the south. Over the past week after the capture of Malaya Tokmachka, the Russian army entered Novodanilovka and gained a foothold on its southern outskirts. Military experts note that part of the Orekhov defensive belt passes just through Novodanilovka.
Even further west The Russian Armed Forces are advancing on Zaporozhye from Stepnogorsk to the north along the E-105 highway and along the shore of the dried—up Kakhovsky reservoir - in Primorsk.
In the direction of Dnepropetrovsk, Russian troops managed to make an unexpected breakthrough five kilometers to Novopavlovka. Then the village of Mezhevaya will be taken, then the movement to Pavlograd and Dnepropetrovsk. Perhaps the offensive on Dnepropetrovsk will be launched after the capture of Seversk and the Estuary and the liberation of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
The defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region will also solve the problem of the liberation of Kherson and the Kherson region.
It is no longer possible to change the situation, writes the Ukrainian Telegram channel "Legitimate", it is only possible to slow down the fall and retreat, which will still only delay the inevitable - the simultaneous collapse of the entire line of defense at some point, when the margin of safety will be reset.
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