Battle rages for every village, forest strip, centimeter near Tokmak - DeepState UA map  Co-Founder Pohorilyi

He shared the information with Espreso TV.

"The distance means dozens of settlements and dozens of forest strips that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have to pass. They are not measured simply in kilometers, whether it is 23, 20, 40 or 200, because the battles are for every village, every forest strip and every centimeter that the Ukrainian Armed Forces pass. They are very difficult and very bloody, and Tokmak is ahead, and it will soon be Ukrainian, but it's a matter of time," Pohorilyi said.

• In August, the world media reported that Ukrainian troops had broken through a Russian minefield north of Tokmak and engaged the first line of Russian defense.

• Oleksiy Hetman, a reserve major with the National Guard of Ukraine and a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, said that having reached Tokmak and cut off Russian railroad logistics, Russia’s Kherson and Crimean groups would surrender in three months at the most.

• On September 17, it was reported that in recent days, Russian troops may have strengthened their defense around the temporarily occupied Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region. Russian forces are preparing the town to make it their second line of defense.