Military Expert: There Are Preconditions To Collapse Russia’s Southern Bridgehead

• 21.11.2023, 11:58

The Ukrainian Armed Forces can advance “strategic pincers” and cut off the land corridor to the Crimea.

The Ukrainian military has captured and is holding bridgeheads on the left bank of the Kherson region. The defenders of Ukraine have a chance to build on their success and collapse the Southern bridgehead.

Military expert Petro Chernik told Channel 24 how this can be done. He noted the importance of the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces failed to develop an analytical component around everything that was happening.

In the future, the Ukrainian military may move its strategic pincers into the Molochny Estuary and cut off the land corridor to the Crimea.

“There are preconditions for collapsing the Southern bridgehead. Although, even the brightest mind will not undertake to predict when it happens,” stated Chernik.

This was probably the original plan of the Ukrainian command, but it was postponed as a result of the bombing of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station by the Russians.

Crimea may be liberated first

“You know my personal concept — first recapture the Crimea. And this is much easier than recapturing the Donbas,” Chernik noted.

According to him, this requires a lot of aircraft and long-range missiles to take the island under fire control. In addition, it is necessary to collapse the Kerch Bridge, as well as drown and shoot down everything that will move to the Crimea.

“The return of the peninsula could lead to a political collapse of the Putin regime, which could provoke chaos and uncontrollability of the military component — and the occupiers themselves will go with a “gesture of goodwill,” noted Petro Chernik.