The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to operate on the principle of active defense. The enemy is currently making the most efforts in the Pokrovskoye direction, but also in Zaporizhia region he became more active, told in his Telegram channel Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky.

"The enemy is currently most active in the Pokrovsky direction. Today, about 40 percent of the fighting fell on it. The enemy is steadily suffering significant losses there," Syrskyi reported.

He noted that Ukrainian units, being in difficult conditions, are repelling attacks in most directions and continuing search and strike operations in certain areas. In particular, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted the Kupyansk and Siversk districts.

According to Syrsky, Russian troops have increased their activity in the Zaporizhia region. He added that the enemy is using weather conditions - thick fog - to infiltrate our positions.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that the situation in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipil directions has significantly deteriorated.

"The enemy, taking advantage of the numerical superiority in forces and means, advanced forward during fierce battles and captured three settlements. Soldiers of the Group of Forces"South" are waging exhausting battles for Rivnepil' and Yablukove. Appropriate support measures are being taken. Combined fire has inflicted significant losses on the aggressor," he wrote.

The general also emphasized that every meter of Ukrainian land costs Russia hundreds of military lives. He added that over the past three days, the aggressor country has lost about 800 people and over a hundred units of various military equipment in the zone of the Group of Forces"South".

"In general, we are increasing the effectiveness of using domestic long-range weapons - Neptune and Flamingo missiles, as well as jet drones. This is a good annoyance for the enemy," Syrsky concluded.

Also in the Telegram channel They say Sniper+, which is led by the mayor of Henichesk, Stanislav Bunyatov, with the call sign"Osman", indicates that in 2026 the Zaporizhia direction from the right flank may face a collapse. It will be similar to the one that occurred in Donbas after Avdiivka and Ocheretyne.

"Osman" noted that if we do not respond to the current situation as it was in Sumy region, then everything could end tragically.

Situation in Zaporizhia region: latest news

UNIAN previously reported that military expert and former spokesman for the General Staff Vladislav Seleznev believes that the stabilization of the situation in the Zaporizhia region will depend on whether there are additional resources to strengthen the Ukrainian group. Seleznev noted that risks for Hulyaipol are increasing He said that the enemy is increasing its efforts and is attacking on a fairly large scale. All because Russia wants to take control of those Ukrainian territories that it has inscribed in the Constitution as its own.

We also wrote that a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine, military expert Ivan Stupak, suggested that the Russian occupiers trying to get around the city of Hulyaipole from the north and make another ring there. Stupak noted that this is a classic that the Russian occupiers are working with. The expert does not rule out that the enemy could use the channel of the destroyed Kakhovka reservoir to attack Ukrainian military personnel in the Stepnohirsk area, south of Zaporizhia.