Preparing a campaign on Crimea: what is known about the Armed Forces bridgehead in the Kherson direction - Musienko

Thus, a bridgehead is gradually created for the Armed Forces about 70 km from Crimea in order to further advance towards the peninsula. On November 22, the head of the Center for Military Legal Research Alexander Musienko told about the prospects of development of the offensive of the defense forces in this direction, the head of the Military Legal Research Center, RBC reports.

According to the expert, in order to perform a full -scale offensive operation to the Crimea, the defense forces must be transferred sufficient forces through the Dnieper and to provide the advanced units of the fire cover. "After this is done, if the enemy is exacerbated by our defense, or not, then the forecasts can be made," Musienko said.

As for the timing, it is not necessary to expect lightning promotion here, since it took almost a year to create the current bridgehead, so it is too early to speak about the immediate prospects of a conditional "hike to Crimea". According to Musienko, the offensive actions of Ukrainians can be expected next spring, and it will be possible to organize a better security.

The creation of a bridgehead is also important because Ukrainian troops can conduct flanking and maneuver operations in this area in order to enter the enemy's rear with all the consequences. For example, Russians can cut logistics pathways, hit the enemy warehouses, and destroy the security strips. In addition, to stop these threats, the enemy will have to transfer additional forces from other areas of the front.

"And this is real, because despite the grouping of more than 60,000 invaders, our Marines were able to find weaknesses," Musienko stressed. According to the DeepState portal from Oleshka settlement almost to a new Kakhovka along the first line of defense of the Russians, the so -called "gray zone" was formed. In some places, the enemy lost control of the road through the settlements of Krynka, Cossacks Legeri, Peschanka.

In this case, the important T2206 track, which leads to Melitopol, is located south. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Ukrainian fighters perform combat missions to identify the ways of supplying the enemy, conduct intelligence, identify the location of the departments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, strike hostile logistics routes.

Evaluating the general situation, the former spokesman of the Armed Forces General Staff Vladislav Seleznev noted that now the defense forces will not be able to move deep into the territories occupied by the Russians, since the support of artillery and air defense means, and they need to be transferred from the right bank. "When will it happen? Only after we give a pontoon-bridal crossing.

As for the time frame of answer, I do not have a very complicated mission in engineering and in terms of how to protect the crossing from enemy aviation and artillery. Therefore, count on The fact that the bridgeheads will soon get to the Crimean isthmus is not worth it, "he emphasized.