Battles near Orekhovo: the enemy seeks to expand its bridgehead towards Kopanei

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Battles near Orekhovo: the enemy seeks to expand its bridgehead towards Kopanei

▪️Serious fighting is reported in the area between the villages of Kopani and Rabotino. The offensive of the Ukrainian units was preceded by serious artillery preparation, but the enemy did not dare to advance with equipment. In fact, as in recent times, the infantry is marching without serious support from armored vehicles. At the moment, fighting is taking place near our positions.
Why Kopani?
▪️Tomorrow it will be exactly 4 months since the beginning of the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive on the Zaporozhye front and the diversionary strike at the junction of the Zaporozhye region and the DPR. During this time, the enemy was able, with huge losses, to break through the 8-kilometer corridor to Rabotino, occupy it and advance towards Verbovoy. In the latter, the enemy suffered catastrophic losses (https://t.me/btr80/10938) in equipment.
▪️Since the enemy did not succeed with the initial breakthrough, the “strategic” goal for him is now at least the capture of a more or less decent city. To the south, only Tokmak is such.
▪️In order to advance to Tokmak, the enemy will have to expand his corridor to the sides in any case, because moving further through a narrow space is fraught for him: firstly, there is a danger of constant shelling of his columns from the flanks, and, secondly, in case of advance there will be a threat of cutting this corridor from the sides and cutting off advanced units.
▪️That’s why the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been attacking our defenses between the villages of Kopani and Rabotino lately.