““The enemy has already said that he took both steppe, small Shcherbaki, and Shcherbaki, and five -haired, but all these settlements remain under our control””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The enemy has already said that he took both the steppe, the small Shcherbaki, and Shcherbaki, and the five -haired, but all these settlements remain under our control, no position was lost there,” he said.
According to Voloshin, in the Orikhiv direction, since March 1, 137 combat clashes took place in 17 days.
“The enemy there really increased his combat activity, not only the assaults continue, there are also fires of our positions and shocks of aviation, so the situation is quite difficult,” says the spokesman.
Voloshin was nominated that in the settlements, Mali Shcherbaki and Fifths continue fighting: “There was virtually nothing left of these settlements, there was no surviving house there, and I can inform that the enemy so tried to go there for the assault groups, but he could not get it out. And those positions today under the control of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. ”
IN The South Defense Forces suggest that Russian troops occur in the Orikhiv direction to occupy new bridgeheads in order to carry out their assault actions in the future.
“In addition, it is quite near Zaporozhye, from the regional center of Zaporozhye. Third, the weather is really changing now, the palette of the theater of combat is changing-the “green” rises, as they say (leaves appear on trees – ed.)it becomes less visibility, and the enemy wants when these conditions change, have some advantage, get some bonuses, get a head start, ”Voloshin explained.
He added that no less difficult situation is in another Zaporizhzhya direction – Gulyaypil, where Russian troops also carry out their assault actions. But there, says Voloshin, somewhat smaller their fire activity.
According to the General Staff, as of 4:00 pm on March 18, the Russian army made three attacks in the steppe and Shcherbak areas in the Orikhiv direction.