Russian troops appear to be preparing for assault operations in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where “the enemy is amassing personnel,” the Ukrainian military’s Southern Command spokesman Vladyslav Voloshyn said on Sept. 28. The statement comes as Russia continues to press forward on its offensives across the eastern front, primarily on the Pokrovsk, Vuhledar, and Toretsk axes in Donetsk Oblast, where the outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian soldiers are forced to withdraw little by little. Speaking on national television, Voloshyn said, citing the Ukrainian military’s intelligence data,…