Left 16 km: the invaders understand that they lose the battle for Tokmak - a military expert

The Armed Forces artillery is already reaching the city. Tokmak is a strategic city because serious nodal transport flows - both road and railway. Russian invaders understand that sooner or later they will lose the southern bridgehead - the city of Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region, but they are still preparing. Only 16 kilometers remained from the positions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine to the city. A military expert, a reserve colonel Petro Chernik said this in an interview with OBOZREVATEL.

"In the Russian occupation army, they are aware that this bridgehead will be lost. However, to take the city" in the forehead "should not be surrounded and exhausted. It is also necessary to do with Bakhmut - a settlement that is much more interesting and serious, than Tokmak. The surroundings of the enemy's grouping here and the capture of several thousand Putin soldiers will lead to a powerful poison of the occupier. He will be presented and painful, "Chernik says.

He added that despite numerous messages in the media that the invaders are removed from the Tokmak of the family, the occupying power, and that from there the FSB staff left, he could not answer the question whether there is panic there, because there is no such intelligence information . "If you go in a straight line, then from the nearest point of our positions to Tokmak some 16 kilometers. Artillery can already work on it.

In fact, it is a strategic city because there are serious nodal transport flows - both road and railway. The southern bridgehead itself. Will the Russians strengthen Tokmak? Will they be. Will it fight for it? The invaders understand that they will lose this southern bridgehead, but when there is a battle for Tokmak, it is unknown now. "I am personally a supporter of the concept that you do not have to take it in the forehead. We need to surround and exhaust that contingent if it remains there.

That's what will really be right for us," the expert says. However, he is convinced that Bakhmut is more interesting and serious than Tokmak, and the invaders will fight for Bakhmut to the last cartridge. "Bakhmut's surroundings will entail either the destruction of the occupation contingent, and there at least 10,000 people, or best - if several thousand Russians in Bakhmut have been captured.

It would really be a serious motivational puppet for the enemy and a very serious blow to their propaganda. They will be very difficult to explain in the media space why it happened. It will be sufficient and painful, " - said Petro Chernik. Recall that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conduct serious training in the Zaporozhye direction.