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The Ukrainian armed forces are very gradually advancing deep into the left bank and in at

least two places have cut the rokad road along the Dnipro.

This road previously allowed the enemy to maneuver with ground forces and resources

to prevent a large airborne assault on the left bank.

And now the opponent’s maneuvering becomes more difficult and long.

To cut an important rokad road so that not only to hold it, but also to move on, can

only be possible with the use of armor well or swarm of drones.

And in general, right now, a certain picture is beginning to take shape, the essence of

which is becoming increasingly clear.

The Ukrainian armed forces are putting the enemy on a stretch, building up pressure in

this direction, and the latter is forced to redeploy its forces here, in particular from

the Tokmak direction.

The game of general staffs begins, where the AFU has an advantage, because it can play

by strengthening or weakening the pressure on the Tokmak or Crimean direction.

Moreover, both of these directions are the main ones.

Because if the enemy's defense begins to crumble on the Tokmak direction, then, having crossed

the defense lines, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will swiftly reach the shores of the Sea of

Azov and definitively cut through both groups of troops.

On the other hand, if the AFU are capable of a deep breakthrough due to a flank strike

from Kherson, in this case, there will be a dissection even more dangerous - on the

Crimean isthmus.

The AFU has two equivalent directions of the main strike and the enemy will choose the

one that will be the most successful and where the Ukrainians will offer the least effective

resistance.

And therein lies the whole trick of the stretch.

The enemy is forced to carefully calculate what and how much he can remove from the Tokmak

direction so as to plug the holes in the Kherson direction, but also not to create a hole near

Robotyne.

In this area, the enemy kept his elite, the Airborne Forces, on the flanks of the Ukrainian

wedge so as to threaten with counter flank attacks and thus prevent the creation of a

deeper breakthrough.

In this case, it was easier for the Ukrainian defense forces to stop and stand in defense,

without expending reserves intended for a breakthrough, in parallel grinding down the

enemy forces.

And so the events on the left bank made the enemy doubt that their elite units were standing

exactly on the only direction of the main strike.

As soon as Ukrainian armored vehicles appeared on the left bank, these assumptions began

to take on more and more threatening shape and the enemy began to transfer troops.

But it's all about proportions.

How many, what and when should be transferred to the Dnipro so as not to significantly weaken

the defense at Tokmak?

There is already a very delicate game going on and any error of the opponent will immediately

materialize in advancing the AFU in both directions.

Already now in the Zaporizhzhya direction Ukrainian troops are working on preparing

the flanks to resume movement in the direction of Tokmak.

But at the same time they are also advancing on the left bank of the Dnipro.

Yes, in both of these areas the advance does not amount to dozens of kilometers, but the

enemy is now forced to scramble and make decisions about where and with what to repel the actions

of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces are now meticulously cleaning up all that may interfere with the

work of the Armed Forces on the bridgeheads.

Where the Ukrainian side plans to create "troubles" we can not know, but the enemy does not know

and therefore - forced to fuss.

And as you know, in such a situation, fatal mistakes are made.