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Today we will talk about the
Southern Operating Area and

some conclusions about the strategic situation.

In the Tokmak direction, the enemy command is
obviously seeking to restore the position of

its troops at the first position of its
main line of defense near the village

of Novoprokopivka and the section between it
and the village of Kopani. But in my opinion,

in fact, they have a slightly different
objective - they are thus trying to force

the Ukrainian troops to withdraw from the
section between Novoprokopivka and Verbove.

For this purpose, it apparently planned and
organized a series of attacks in the two

directions Kopani - Robotyne and Novoprokopivka -
Robotyne, trying to force the advanced AFU units,

which had previously reached the northern
outskirts of Novoprokopivka village,

to withdraw northward from these
positions under the threat of a

bypass from the right flank. Just as with
the AFU units currently fighting between

Novoprokopivka and Verbove for the first
position of the main enemy line of defense.

The main point of these attacks was to seek
to reach the western outskirts of Robotyne.

As part of this plan, over the past 3 days,
the enemy has actively carried out offensive

assault actions in the mentioned directions
but has only managed to advance 800 meters

during this time, after which it presumably
temporarily ceased its intensive attacks.

At the moment, it is evident that their command
is reinforcing its forward units in this direction

and preparing to resume another series of
assault actions towards the "right side" of

the Ukrainian grouping, which is conducting combat
operations along the Novoprokopivka-Verbove line.

In principle, the logic of these steps
and decisions of the enemy command in

this direction is quite clear. At the moment he
has no other way to restore the position of his

troops on the first position of his main line
of defense between Novoprokopivka and Verbove.

They cannot "head-on" displace the Ukrainian
forces from the first position of the main

defense line with their exhausted forces
in the "south to north" direction. The only

option left is to try to compel them
to retreat through flanking actions.

The previous attempt to attack on
the other flank - north-west of

Verbove village - ended in vain
for the occupants. Moreover,

the enemy consequently lost control over one
of the heights, which made it a little easier

for the AFU advanced units that reached
the northwestern outskirts of Verbove.

In addition, the Ukrainian command parried
this attempt quite successfully by organizing

a series of attacks in the direction of
Novopokrovka, even further north of this area,

which in turn cast doubt on the expediency of the
Russian paratroopers' attacks in the Verbove area.

Therefore, it seems to me
that this is not the end yet.

The enemy forces will evidently seek
to "restore the position" further by

attacking the Ukrainian grouping from different
sectors and directions, which is aimed at Tokmak.

So far the eastern flank is more or less standing,
the enemy is making minimal progress there.

At this point, I see no prospects for the enemy
to repeat their attempt to encircle the AFU's

regiment while simultaneously advancing
from Kopani and Novopokrovka to meet them.

The enemy will be forced to attack
head-on. It is not known what the

prospects are, but we know that
the occupants do not count losses.

The situation is far from
stabilized and the western

flank east of Kopani I have serious concerns.

Everything is going towards
seeing a "mini-Avdiivka" here.