Melitopol Next: The media have learned about the possible new offensive of the Armed Forces in the South (Photo)

Control over the big city in the Zaporozhye region will help the Ukrainian military expel the enemy from part of the Kherson region. The locals talk about the great tributary of Russian soldiers to Melitopol at the end of November. The Ukrainian military seeks to isolate and weaken the forces of the Russian invaders in and around Melitopol. Western military experts expect this city to become the next war zone in the south, the American newspaper The New York Times writes.

Kyiv, according to journalists, carries out high -precision rocket racks, diversions and exactly destroys the enemy in Melitopol. In the evening, December 12, the Armed Forces blew the bridge across the Milk River, which connected Melitopol with the village of Konstantinovka. "The destruction of the bridge has jeopardized the key way of supplying the Russian troops to Melitopol from the south.

Control over it can help the Armed Forces to return not only all Zaporizhzhya, but also the rest of the neighboring Kherson region," the newspaper said. A series of recent strikes of the Armed Forces on the accumulation of the enemy in Melitopol is either a prelude to the offensive, or the distraction of attention and the preparation of attack on the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from another direction, military analysts reported.

The nearest territory held by Ukrainian troops is about 40 miles (about 65 kilometers) north of Melitopol. A pensioner from Melitopol, named Natalia, said that at the end of November she noticed a large tributary of Russian soldiers to the city. According to her, the soldiers went with weapons and heavy artillery, as well as seized schools. Natalia said she saw the flights of aircraft and helicopters of the Russian army over the area.

In early December, Russian troops closed almost all entrances and exits from the city, said the mayor of the city Mikhail Fedorov. Closing the city, the invaders try to identify guerrillas and other participants in hostilities on the side of Ukraine. The Russians installed several checkpoints and searched cars, the mayor said.

It should be reminded that the General Staff of the Armed Forces recently declared the task of accurate strike on the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Vasylivsky, Melitopol and Pologovsky districts of Zaporizhzhya region. The leadership of the 58th Army of Russia was destroyed in Melitopol. Focus also wrote about a powerful explosion in the center of the temporarily occupied Melitopol on December 13.