Is it possible to counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Channel 24 >Regardless of whether the Russian invaders manage to “take” the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, they will present it as a victory until May 9.
And then Russia will be forced to take an operational pause. Military expert Oleg Zhdanov spoke exclusively about this to Channel 24. He told what to expect from the Russian army.
Another phase of the war
According to him, they will definitely take an operational pause, since the Russians need to form a wave of something for the reserve. All in order to strengthen the troops stationed on the territory of Ukraine.
So far, we observe that there is an accumulation of troops only in the Izyum direction, and there is a partial regrouping of troops in the direction of Krivoy God and Zaporozhye,” Zhdanov noted.
However, as he explained, this regrouping continues at the expense of those units that the Russians already have there. That is, there are no reinforcements from Russia with people yet.
Is a UAF counteroffensive possible then
“Therefore, most likely they will try to move to the positional phase of the war,” the military expert added.
This means that there will be no active hostilities , but mainly defense. The previous such operational pause lasted 4 weeks.
He stressed that as soon as the infidels' offensive potential ends, they immediately begin to dig trenches in order to gain a foothold on the lines they stand on. And then they abruptly overturn the troops in other directions.
We will try to inflict maximum fire damage on them and hold positions, because this is our main task for this day, Zhdanov emphasized.
Latest news on the situation in the regions of Ukraine: the main thing
- On May 4, a significant part of the territory of Ukraine came under fire from the Russian military. The invaders carried out rocket and artillery strikes on all regions of our country.
- Air defense worked in the Kiev region, Dnepropetrovsk region and near Cherkassy.
- After the failure in the North, Russian troops concentrated their forces in the East. During the night, the Russians shelled the outskirts of Kharkov several times. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
- Over the past day, in the Luhansk region, the aggressor troops launched 7 powerful artillery attacks on Severodonetsk and 7 more on Popasnyanskaya and Gornaya communities. Lisichansk received four enemy attacks.
- On May 5 at 4 am, Russian infidels fired air-to-ground missiles at Kramatorsk. The shelling damaged 9 houses and schools.
- The situation in the Kherson region remains difficult. Explosions and shelling are recorded on the territory of Kherson. The invaders continue fighting and looting.
- The night passed relatively calmly in Volyn, Transcarpathia, Rivne, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv regions, Zaporozhye, Sumy, Vinnitsa, Ternopil, Khmelnitsky regions, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions.
