Under Kupyansk - 100 thousand Russians: whether there will be an offensive on Kharkiv and the area

The speaker of the eastern group of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Sergey Cherevaty gives a comparison - at the height of war in the Afghanistan of the USSR gathered up to 120 thousand soldiers. The enemy has accumulated the best infantry units, territorial troops, PVC units and other reserves. The problem in the Limano-Kupyansk direction is not new. Forces of Ukraine's defense for many months have not allowed them to break through and make powerful blows, added a cherry.

"It has not been 100,000 yesterday. Plus-minus the figure has long been. A little more, a little less. It is not an indicator of a threat or a reason for fear. On the contrary, it is an indicator of pride for the forces of Ukraine's defense forces," the Speaker of the Cherevaty said. As for the sound data on tanks, it is mostly the old technique of the USSR, the military said.

The commander of the 4th Company of the 128th Battalion of the 112nd Teroboron Brigade Yuriy Fedorenko told about the successes of the Armed Forces on June 18 in the Kupyansko-Savtov direction. The invaders are storming there to identify weaknesses in defense, but the Ukrainian military reflect all attacks. According to Fedorenko, the Armed Forces will cope with an enemy group of 100 thousand soldiers. The difficult work is in Marinka, in Lymansky, Kupyansk and Swatt.

The officer of the Air Force reserve, military expert Andriy Kramarov in conversation with Focus mentioned that since the beginning of the year, a Russian group of 60 to 70 thousand people stood in the Limano-Kupyansky direction. It included participants in the fault of the Kharkiv operation with good equipment of military equipment. "The fighting near Kupyansk was local in nature - there were attempts to go to the estuary.

The shock fist was formed there because the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation did not take the initiative in the south," the military expert explained. The accumulation of troops in the Limano-Kupyansk direction is required to dispersal the artillery of the Armed Forces. In June, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had a record for the loss of equipment thanks to the work of Ukrainian artillerymen, Kramarov said.

"The Russian Armed Forces group is serious and capable, it will be difficult for our defense, but the command controls the situation. It may be the last chance of the Russian Federation to seize the initiative in a full -scale war. Exacerbation, "he continued. Promotion in the Kharkiv region will be an extremely difficult task for the Russian army. You will have to wade through the minefields and break the defense echelons of the Armed Forces. "This is so distant perspective . . .

to say that the group near Kupyansk will come to Kharkiv altogether Donetsk direction, " - comments Kramarov. Russian troops will not go to Kharkiv and the region, confident Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military instructor Roman Svitan. "They are interested in Lugansk direction and pocket" Oskil - Siverskyi Donets ". Only there the occupiers can somehow move. At other points they have a bad strategic position.

In the area from Kupyansk through Svatovo to the Kremin Lugansk region they can press the Armed Forces. They tried to move there, but unsuccessfully, "he described the situation at the front. We will remind, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleg Synigubov on July 13 said that in the Kupyansk direction can be from 5 to 20 thousand invaders. Their main purpose of the movement is the Lugansk region.