According to him, “one can trust” the statements of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on this matter.
“Many of our units are working there, around Kupyansk. Today, I believe the situation has been stabilized, and I hope that our defense forces will do everything to prevent Kupyansk from being captured,” he said.
The head of the Joint Forces Communications Department, Viktor Tregubov, said today on a telethon that Russian units are in the northern part of Kupyansk. They are trying to bypass the city and move into the center.
“The tactics of small groups are used, which cling to certain buildings, accumulate and, when there is some kind of critical mass, try to move on,” Fakty quotes him.
The occupiers have been claiming for about six months that they allegedly surrounded the city, Tregubov added.
Today, the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin repeated the words of the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Viktor Gerasimov, that the Ukrainian defense forces were in a large-scale encirclement in Kupyansk, as well as in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. He invited the media to verify this by coming to the front.
“I discussed this issue with the commanders of the relevant groups. They are not against sending media representatives, foreign journalists and Ukrainian journalists into enemy encirclement zones. So that they can go in and see with their own eyes what is happening there,” the head of the Kremlin said (quoted from RIA Novosti).
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President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky at the end of August reported that in the Pokrovsk direction the concentration of Russian military personnel was about 100 thousand people and that they were preparing offensive actions. At the beginning of September, the air assault troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces warned that the Russian Federation had deployed experienced marine units to the Pokrovsky region for a “decisive breakthrough” in the Donetsk region.
The media wrote that the command of the Russian army had already promised Putin the capture of Kupyansk and Pokrovsk. It is precisely for the sake of improving the positions of Russian troops that the Russian Federation has been delaying the peace negotiation process since May.
Pokrovsk was infiltrated about 200 Russian occupiers, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces informed on October 26. According to the military, the enemy is outnumbered and is increasing its offensive efforts. The President, commenting on the situation in Pokrovsk, said that in the city and on the approaches to it There are tough battles, there is also a DRG.
