“At the same time, he urged civilians to evacuate from Kupyansk, noting that the city lacks critical infrastructure”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Unchanged, the situation is critical. And, in addition to those sabotage and intelligence groups that are seeped into the city or seeping into the city, the enemy carries out massive shelling of the territory of Kupyansk, the territory of the community, ”Besedin said.
According to him, Russian troops fired the city and the community massively. In particular, according to the MBA chairman, the invaders use FPV-punks in the fiber-to-optic connection, which are not subject to radio electronic struggle, and these drones “chat on ordinary people on the street”.
At the same time, Besedin stated that the situation in the city and the community was controlled by the Defense forces of Ukraine.
At the same time, he urged civilians to evacuate from Kupyansk, noting that there was no critical infrastructure in the city. According to him, 680 civilians remain on the Right Bank of Kupyansk, 1,660 people are on the territory of the community, and these people refuse evacuation, despite the danger for their lives. Besedin also stated that their presence complicates the work of the Armed Forces.
In the telegram, the head of the MBA reported that since the beginning of the year, the Russian military carried out 36,545 shelling of settlements of Kupyansk community, dropped 1300 managed aviation bombs. As a result, he said, 64 people were killed, 320 were injured.
Kupyansk is of strategic importance for the defense of the Donbass, and its loss can lead to the surroundings of Ukrainian troops on the left bank of the Oskol, writes Radio Liberty Project Donbass.Realia. The threat to Kupyansk has increased since the summer, and now the situation has been complicated. Russian troops successfully applied the tactics of penetration in small groups and tried to penetrate the city through a gas pipe. The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces confirmed that the forces of defense had caused a fire damage and flood this pipe.
Russia seized Kupyansk on February 27, 2022, the city was occupied for more than half a year. The forces of defense released Kupyansk on September 10, 2022 during the Kharkiv counter -offensive.