On the front in January-February, the Bakhmut-Soledar line will remain the hottest point, as well as the Lyman-Kreminna line.

Such a forecast was made by the head of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation, Serhiy Kuzan, on the "1+1" broadcast as part of the "One News" telethon.

He reminded that today the Russian troops are concentrated in the Bakhmut direction.

"The

line will continue to remain the hottest point. Because it is the image not only of Prigozhin himself, and not only his prospects for maintaining his power, and his influence in the Kremlin, but the image of the Russian army in general is at stake. Let me remind you that there are concentrated and the best artillery units of Russia," Kuzan explained.

He also informed that the occupiers will try to slow down the advance of the Armed Forces in the direction of Lyman-Kreminna.

"Also, of course,

. That is, there the Russians will try to slow down our offensive actions. According to the latest reports from our General Staff, we have an advance of 2.5 kilometers there. The Russians will try to organize some desperate counterattack actions to slow down there our advancement," predicts the expert. 

He added that the

"Because we see in the vicinity of Donetsk, that is, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka - there are attempts, Avdiivka - of course, that there are attempts for offensive actions," said Kuzan.

At the same time, Russian troops are strengthening and moving their forces to the area of ​​Melitopol and Berdyansk.

"If we talk about the south, for example, the

, then there is a natural obstacle here - the Dnipro. This status quo is maintained here.

, the occupiers will desperately try to accumulate. That is, in the area of ​​Melitopol, Berdyansk, they are building up, strengthening their garrison, and transferring manpower there , equipment," the expert said.

"But all their plans in this direction are disrupted by the Defense Forces, because we destroy every such accumulation with our artillery - reactive and barrel. That is, we

and do not allow them to regroup. In general, this dynamic will be maintained in the near future," Kuzan summarized.

We will remind, according to forecasts of military expert Serhii Grabskyi, in the next two weeks-month all the attention on the front will be focused on the district of Bakhmut, Kreminnaya.

In addition, it is necessary to carefully monitor the south, where the Armed Forces create the prerequisites for an attack and advance in the Melitopol area. 

Let us add that, according to the DPSU, Russia continues to transfer its troops from Belarus to the east of Ukraine.

At the same time, the RB itself has not yet registered the movement of Russian equipment and personnel to the Ukrainian border.   

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