Thread by @AZgeopolitics

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Orekhovsky area,situation as of 13.00 March 19, 2023

🔻Two assault groups of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the AFU Air Assault Forces, reinforced by territorial defense units, about two hours ago conducted reconnaissance battle

at the position of the 291st regiment of the 42nd motorized rifle division of the Russian Armed Forces near Robotyne.

▪️ AFU formations tried to outflank strongholds of the Russian Armed Forces from two sides. The movement of the enemy was noted by the calculations of the UAV,

and the artillerymen of the 42nd MRD Rifle Division worked on the advancing groups of the AFU, destroying the equipment on which the AFU moved.

▪️ This attack, with a high degree of probability, is not the last one today. Armored vehicles of the AFU, including tanks, are now concentrated in the vicinity of Novodanilovka.

▪️At the moment , at least 15 units of equipment have been deployed near the suburb of Orekhov. AFU units use a smoke screen before almost every offensive.

▪️ In addition, the AFU tried to storm the Russian Armed Forces positions from the Bilohir'ya - Charivnoe line. In the vicinity of Bilohir'ya , a column was formed, on which artillery immediately worked out. Now AFU equipment has returned to its original positions.

🔻 AFU command is preparing for a large-scale offensive. Regular, essentially suicidal attacks are aimed at assessing the state of Russian defense and adjusting the overall offensive plan in the Zaporizhia region.

▪️At the same time, in the south of the AFU, reserves are concentrated not only near Zaporozhye: in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions from Ochakov to Nikopol, there are from ten to 15 thousand people, mainly therodefense and mobilized.

▪️Yesterday, the AFU unsuccessfully tried to land the recon groups on Bolshoi Potemkin Island. And in Maryansky, on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions,

on the banks of the Kakhovka reservoir, assault groups are trained daily, including landing on the left bank of the Dnieper.