“In Kupyansk, up to 200 Russian soldiers remain surrounded, there is no provision for them.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
The situation in the city is mentioned by DeepState Source: head of the communication department of the United Forces Group Viktor Tregubov in the news telethon
Tregubov’s direct speech: “According to preliminary estimates of our intelligence there (in Kup‘Yanska – ed.) as of the end of last week, there were 40 active callsigns in walkie-talkies… Usually this is one walkie-talkie for 3-4 people. Accordingly, and from this, we count that there are from 100 to 200. According to our estimates, it is more likely to be more than a hundred.”
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Details: Tregubov said that the Russian military leadership cannot help the encircled occupiers, as all communication with them, except for the “air bridge”, has been cut off.
Direct speech: “This means that to deliver anything (there is no question of replenishment) it must be dropped from drones. Drones have a limited cargo capacity‘capacity, they cannot fly everywhere, and also, when something falls from drones, Ukrainians also see where it falls and see who is running after it. Therefore, there is an additional danger factor. To be a Russian in Kup‘Janska is unpleasant now.”
Prehistory:
- On December 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi visited the Kupyansky district and recorded a video near the half-ruined stele of the city.
- Before that, on December 12, it became known that the Defense Forces had carried out a successful counterattack near Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, and surrounded the Russian group in the city.
- 429 separate regiment of unmanned systems “Achilles” destroyed a pipe that the enemy used to infiltrate personnel in Kupyansk.
- The head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, and the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, have several times in recent weeks announced the complete occupation of Kupyansk and the “surrounding of 15 battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”