In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops are preparing for a breakthrough and further offensive on the regional center, but their attacks are repulsed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy also carries out combat reconnaissance and tries to distract the attention of Ukrainian forces.

This was reported by military experts, officials and representatives of the Armed Forces, FreeDom reports.

Russian troops in the Zaporozhye direction tried to carry out certain actions in small groups of up to 10 people in order to 

improve their tactical position

.

At some points, the enemy tried to level certain sections of the defense.

This was announced by the head of the joint press center of the Defense Forces of the Tavrya Division, Yevgen Yerin.

"All his attempts have now failed. And even despite the temporary short-term successes, the enemy has been pushed back and

our defense line remains on the former lines

," said Yerin.

At the same time, Ivan Stupak, a military expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, suggested that Russian commanders "from below" may have tried to "prompt" Ukrainian defenses and the readiness of the troops to defend themselves in this territory with intelligence. 

"If possible, there was some weakness, then we

tried to develop the offensive

. But we only see infantry - just in the field. I don't see a lot of people just in the field, mechanized units. This suggests that the problem is not really with the equipment, but there are certain difficulties," Stupak believes.

He added that the Russians are not yet throwing equipment into the offensive for a breakthrough.

The Mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, drew attention to the fact that in the last few days, the occupiers are trying to intensify their actions in certain directions.

At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine publishes information "how the

occupiers are returning en masse from the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region in black bags

." 

"In Mykhailivka, an ammunition depot exploded for several hours. The same situation was in Makiivka. The other day, many wounded and dead were brought from the Zaporizhia region. Please note that Melitopol is not the closest city to the front line in the Zaporizhia region, but that is where the injured were taken yesterday. This shows that all Russian hospitals located in small towns are overcrowded," Fedorov said.

Oleksandr Starukh, the former head of Zaporizhzhia OVA, said that the invaders are

shelling the region

with up to S-300 missiles and firing artillery shells up to two thousand times a day.

They also use incendiary shells to simply cause fires and destroy people's property as much as possible.  

"Berdyansk on the coast is occupied, as is Melitopol - more than 80 kilometers from the contact line. The road that goes from Crimea through Melitopol and Berdyansk to Mariupol and Rostov has been used for logistics and transfer of Russian troops in recent months. Therefore,

troops are accumulating at a certain point , then they shift to

other areas that they have identified as priorities," said Starukh.

According to the military-political observer Oleksandr Kovalenko,

approximately 30 battalion tactical groups of the enemy are now concentrated in the Zaporizhzhia region. 

"They are mainly concentrated in the Vasylivka-Tokmak-Melitopol triangle and carry out simulated offensive actions in the direction of Orichovo and Gulyaipol. But again, the defense lines there are sufficiently fortified and hold the Armed Forces of Ukraine steady. For their breakthrough, a serious potential is needed. And

the simulated offensive they distract the Armed Forces

from concentrating on the Ukrainian counteroffensive on this bridgehead," Kovalenko explained.

Military expert Serhii Grabskyi said that the

enemy is trying to advance

 in the area of ​​Gulyaipol, Orikhov and other points, sometimes successfully.

Ukrainian troops repulse the enemy.

"That is, in this capacity, these actions can be considered as combat reconnaissance or an attempt to improve one's tactical position in the area," the expert assessed.

At the same time, he said that

Russia also has strategic goals in this direction - to cross the right bank of the Dnieper, advancing to Zaporizhzhia.

"The enemy is trying to build a defense that excludes the possibility of advancing our troops and does not and, in their opinion, will not give an opportunity to break through to Melitopol - our strategic goal," Grabsky said.

He announced that in the future the Russians are trying to create a grouping of troops to try to break through in the direction of Zaporozhye.

The enemy is constantly probing the Ukrainian defenses there, and at the same time the Armed Forces are doing the same, striking the places where the invaders' personnel and weapons are concentrated.

"That is, the dynamics of the war are such that

both sides are preparing for more active actions

. In the near future, this is possible within 1-2 months," the military expert noted.

It will be recalled that, according to Canadian intelligence, the Russians do not have the human and material resources for an effective offensive in the Zaporizhzhia region.

The invaders are also afraid of a counteroffensive of the Armed Forces in this area.

Earlier, military expert Oleksandr Musienko assessed the Zaporizhzhia direction as auxiliary for the Russian troops in order to partially withdraw the Armed Forces.

The main direction of the expert is the eastern one, where the battles are taking place, that is, the district of Bakhmut, Soledar.

In an interview with TSN.ua, expert Serhiy Grabskyi assessed that today Russians consider the Zaporizhia direction as a distraction.

There, the enemy seeks to create a powerful defense to prevent Ukrainian forces from breaking through in the direction of Melitopol.

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