“Viktor Tregubov noted that it is always difficult to wage urban battles and one must take into account the “risks of a change in the situation””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“As of now, there is an operation to eliminate Russian cells in the northern part of the city. I won’t say that it’s very easy, but considering that they are cut off from the main supplies and they can’t be effectively replenished now, they are in a much worse situation than the Ukrainian defenders were even at the worst moment,” he said on the air of the telethon.
Tregubov noted that it is always difficult to wage urban battles and one must take into account the “risks of a change in the situation.”
“They (the RF troops – ed.) have had their communication interrupted, it is happening only at the expense of UAVs, which drop something or other on them. Attempts to resupply or drive vehicles into the northern regions are effectively blocked by Ukrainian strikes. That is, they cannot effectively supply the troops that are in the city, but they can drop certain products or ammunition on them,” said the head of the communications department of the United Forces group.
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Kupyansk is of strategic importance for the defense of Donbass, and its loss could lead to the encirclement of Ukrainian troops on the left bank of the Oskol River, writes the Radio Liberty Donbass.Realii project. The threat to Kupyansk has been growing since the summer, and now the situation has become even more complicated. Russian troops successfully used small group infiltration tactics.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced on November 15, following the results of a meeting with the participation of key leaders of the defense and security sphere, that the Russian military was unable to capture Pokrovsk and Kupyansk within the deadlines planned by their command, “and the deadlines were postponed again.”
Russia captured Kupyansk on February 27, 2022, the city was under occupation for more than half a year. Defense forces liberated Kupyansk on September 10, 2022 during the Kharkiv counteroffensive.