February 19, CNN, citing unnamed Russian and Ukrainian sources, reported that the enemy had already concentrated A 50,000-strong group of its soldiers.
This information was reported by Glavcom, reported by URA-Inform.
Speaker of the operational-strategic group «Tavria» Dmitry Likhovoy responded to a CNN article, which stated that the occupiers are massively increasing their presence in the south of Ukraine, in particular in the Zaporozhye direction.
The military officer noted that such a number of occupiers does not pose such a threat as in Avdiivka, Donetsk region .
«These several tens of thousands of people from the occupation army do not exert the same pressure as in Avdiivka, because these are different circumstances and conditions. The Zaporozhye direction has a significant length, and the enemy distributes all this quantity along this line of its fortification», — noted Likhovoy.
At the same time, he emphasized, if the enemy decides to withdraw his forces from the flanks, then the Ukrainian defenders can take advantage of this and go there.
We recall that it was previously reported , the Russian Federation is massing troops in one of the directions: where the occupiers have become more active.