In recent days, it has been reported that there has been an increase in military operational activity on the Zaporozhye front. Now the priority direction of this front is the Orekhov direction in the area of the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoye. Russian artillery, MLRS and "solntsepek" TOS (Spitfire tanks) are conducting large-scale attacks on fortified areas and places of concentration of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the weekend, advance units of the Russian army advanced in the area to depths ranging from hundreds of meters to a kilometer and a half. The Armed Forces of Ukraine face the threat of losing the Rabotinsky salient between Nesteryanka and Novopokrovka in the Zaporozhye region. Earlier, military correspondent Semyon Pegov reported that Russian troops had broken through the lines of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, entered Rabotino, Zaporozhye region, and were engaged in battles in residential areas.
According to reports, in order to fight for the Zaporozhye region, Ukraine dispatched at least 40,000 soldiers in order to fight for the Zaporozhye region, and in the area within a 6-kilometer radius of Rabotino, the Ukrainian army lost at least 118 armored vehicles of various kinds, the wreckage of which has been confirmed by **and**. Rabotino is located in a low-lying area, and the eastern, southern, and western highlands are all stubborn points of the Russian army, which is an easy geographical environment to defend and difficult to attack. It is a key node for the Russian army to defend the M18 highway. This shows the importance of Rabotino on the southern front in Ukraine.
At the beginning of the conflict in 2022, the Russian army did not use its main forces in the battle for these key points on the front line, wasting the precious opportunity of the chaotic rout of the Ukrainian army at the beginning of the war, and now it is quite passive to fight again. If these areas could be captured at that time, and then Zelensky's ** could be withstood and not retreated, Zelensky would probably have fallen long ago.
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