< p _ngcontent-sc100="" class="news-annotation">After the change of commander Sergei Surovikin to Valery Gerasimov, there has been a revival of Russian regular army units in Ukraine. They are trying to advance in Zaporozhye, but they are not successful.

Military expert Oleg Zhdanov told about this in the author's moisture on his channel, Channel 24 reports. In his opinion, the Russian military are trying to come up with some kind of success against the background of the successful actions of the Wagner PPK in the Bakhmut direction.

“There are no successes in Zaporozhye either. In the comments, they wrote that the Russians in Zaporozhye advanced 7-8 kilometers and occupied 7 settlements. But there are not so many settlements there,” Zhdanov said.

According to the military expert , the Ukrainian army actually established the status quo, which was before the start of attempts to attack in the Zaporozhye direction. Russian attacks were more like reconnaissance in force. All their attempts were stopped, the aggressors suffered significant losses and no longer restored the offensive.

Russian offensive in Zaporozhye: watch video

Gerasimov wants to surpass Prigozhin

According to Zhdanov, everything the actions of the Russian army come down to the fact that the military command needs to show success comparable to what the Wagner PKK was like in the area of ​​Soledar and Bakhmut during the command of Prigozhin and Surovikin.

Regular parts came and all successes ended. They are trying to burn down the remnants of the Wagner PVK, but there have been no other successes so far,” the expert said.

According to Zhdanov, the Patriot NPK is being formed in the Ugledar region, including partly from Belarusian citizens. But this association has not yet proved to be a success.

The offensive of the Russian army in Zaporozhye

• the invaders tried to attack Ukrainian positions near the cities of Orekhov and Gulyaipole. In the Orekhov area, there is also a certain amount of pressure from Russian troops on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a front section of about 40-50 kilometers.
• The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has published a video of the so-called “offensive” of the Russian invaders in the Zaporozhye direction. The footage shows how the Defense Forces destroy the invaders. Thanks to the coordinated actions of the Ukrainian military, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, an enemy tank and about 30 invaders were destroyed.
• Retired Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell believes that Putin will try to strengthen the predominantly occupied region of Zaporozhye in the coming months in order to avoid a Ukrainian breakthrough.< /li>