All language subtitles for 01-10-2023yuftrdsertee

About the gray zone, winter troubles for
the occupants and the Zaporizhzhya triangle.

Russian sources are reporting some
panic about the village of Verbove,

which is not surprising given the Ukrainian
Liberation Forces advances there. But while

the attention of Russian patriots is drawn to
Verbove, Novoprokopivka is completely ignored.

And this, too, is not surprising.

Verbove is of course an important village on the
border of the first and second line of defense,

the liberation of which would open
the Ukrainian stormtroopers an exit

in several directions at once. But still,
it is somewhat away from highway 0408,

which leads through Novoprokopivka,
Ilchenkove and Solodka Balka to Tokmak.

And the nuance of this, conditionally,
agglomeration of villages is that the

liberation of Novoprokopivka makes it
absolutely senseless for the occupants

to hold Ilchenkove and Solodka Balka. And
if they are not a herd of suicidal people,

after the liberation of Novoprokopivka they
will have to rush to Tokmak on highway 0408.

What will the Russian command do in the above
situation? I think you and I will soon find out.

But, in the impending collapse of this location,
the Russian command is trying to divert attention

from the situation on a very important
highway to the situation on an important,

but still somewhat remote village. But
the tops of the Zaporizhzhya triangle

Novoprokopivka-Verbove-Ocheretuvate
are already starting to crumble.

It is also worth paying attention
to a little further west,

specifically to the gray
zone in the Kherson region.

This is a unique gray zone along the left
bank of the Dnipro. The area that used to

be the first border of the enemy's supply
line has turned into a zone where there

is no control of positions by the
Russian occupants and, in a sense,

at the same time absent, but also present
control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In

a sense, this is the specificity and
uniqueness of the Kherson gray zone.

For example, on the left bank there
is a notional position of the enemy,

which they have lost for one reason or another,
but where Ukrainian forces are not present

either. Can the Russians return to it? They
can, but in a day or two they'll be cut out

there and the position will be a draw again. Or in
a couple of hours after returning to it, something

fragmentation or cluster bomb will fly directly
at this position and the result will be the same.

This is how the gray area on the left bank
grows, multiplying the number of such draws

positions. Well, as draw positions, I have already
explained the specifics of "draw" positions above.

But this gray zone has a nuance...
Already now it is beginning to

bump into the borders of temporarily
occupied settlements and towns. Oleshky,

Hola Prystan, Kozachi Laheri, Krynky, Korsunka....

The gray zone presses in and piles up. What
will happen next? Because at some point, the

gray zone will no longer consume enemy positions,
but streets, intersections, neighborhoods... "The

Mist" by Stephen King as an analogy, only the
good side is on the other side of the mist.

I also want to mention the Russian narrative

that the onslaught will stop once
mud season begins. But this year,

we don't have to expect a repeat of last year,
no one is going to give the enemy a break.

You can only get attached to "mud season"
until it freezes over. And then you can

continue the pressure in almost the
same amount as before the "season".

In the interval there will be a lot of
counter-battery and infantry fighting,

so that the occupants have not yet had time
to set up an additional line of defense.

Winter battles, of course, have their
own peculiarities, but I am sure that

the AFU will be able to surprise the enemy
unpleasantly at this time of year as well.