In a surprise move, Russian military forces managed to cross the frozen Dnieper River southwest of Zaporizhia and entered the outskirts of the city, the capital of the homonymous region.
It is the first time that Russian forces have succeeded in anchoring themselves in the city of Zaporizhia, which has a population of around 700,000 and is the third largest city they have entered in this war, after Kiev and Kharkiv, which they abandoned after the March 2022 agreement.
An agreement that was subsequently broken by Kiev, based on a demand from Britain and then Prime Minister M. Johnson
They are moving across the frozen terrain, from the town of Malokaterinivka to the Kusukhum/Kishigym meadow in Zaporizhia, the capital of the Ukrainian Oblast of the same name, which was incorporated into the Russian Federation by a referendum in September 2022.
The advance took place during the night and involved a special forces battalion, not armored vehicles. The attack, as shown on the map, is behind the southern Ukrainian defense line.
