< p _ngcontent-sc181="" class="news-annotation">The Russians are concentrating their main efforts in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but they have transferred the Wagner PMC to the Zaporozhye direction. The Wagnerites are light infantry and perform certain functions for the occupying troops.
First of all, it is said that Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenaries carried out limited assault operations. Military expert Sergei Grabsky told Channel 24 about this.
What is the role of the Wagnerites in the Zaporizhia direction
It is for such actions that the Russian invaders can use the Wagnerites. So, Russia is trying to increase the number of troops in certain areas of the Zaporozhye direction. However, this does not mean that the occupiers will be able to collect them in sufficient numbers.
Some demonstration actions and pressure on our positions are possible in order to divert the attention of our fighters from repelling those attacks and advances so that our units would not be used in other directions, Grabsky noted.
In his opinion, such a goal of the enemy is absolutely obvious and accessible. For this, the Wagnerites approach the Zaporozhye direction, since on the main fronts the Russian invaders will need shock mechanized or armored personnel units of the army of the aggressor country.
Grabsky explained the role of the Wagnerites in the Zaporozhye direction: watch the video
“It turns out such a replacement of regular troops by Wagnerians,” summed up the military expert.
The situation in Zaporozhye: latest news
- Now in the information space there are many forecasts about a possible offensive by Russian invaders from the Zaporozhye direction. Colonel Aleksey Dmitrashkovsky, head of the joint press center of the Defense Forces of the Tauride direction, said that in fact the situation is completely different.
- According to him, the enemy is constantly maneuvering, moving and trying to strengthen and carry out reconnaissance activities. At the same time, our servicemen are ready for different scenarios.
- In the occupied part of Zaporozhye, the invaders are trying to suppress the loyalty of Ukrainians to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so they are shelling civilian infrastructure.
- Russian invaders continue to use civilian infrastructure on the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporozhye for their own purposes. Consequently, the occupiers use the city hospital of Dniprorudny as a military hospital. They brought medicines and surgeons from Russia.
- On the morning of February 1, a large-scale fire broke out in the temporarily occupied Melitopol. Thick smoke was recorded in the area of the Refma plant, where the Russians placed their military base.
