Tension as in Bakhmut: what happens near Kupyansk and when the Armed Forces are defeated by the army of the Russian Federation

Regular attempts of storms testify to the desire of the enemy to surround Kupyansk before frost, Ukrainian border guards warn. Probably, in the near future, the enemy army will try to create a point in the city by analogy with Bakhmut or Avdiivka, indicating military analysts. Ukrainian border guards are afraid that Russian invaders can prepare the environment of Kupyansk Kharkiv region for winter.

According to the head of the press service of the assault brigade of the State Border Guard Service of the State Tax Administration "Steel Border", Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Shevtsov, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation storm the city in groups of 50 to 100 military, but only 10-20 return alive.

The storms testify to the desire of the enemy to break into Kupyansk before the onset of frost: the invaders seek to go to the border passing the left bank of the Oskil River, explained the spokesman of the DPSU. Shevtsov emphasized that Kupyansk and Kupyansk-Nuzlyol are strategically important points with good railway entrances. This makes them critical to the Russian army.

The head of the press service of the Eastern Grouping Ilya Yevlash in communication with Focus confirmed the enemy's intention to focus on the Kupyansk direction. The Armed Forces reflected 15 attacks in the area last day. "The enemy has goals to surround Kupyansk, but all attempts are unsuccessful. Now the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation meets active resistance of defense forces.

We have a powerful fortress there, which will not allow the enemy to do it [surround the city]," the military explained. Yesterday in the specified direction the 25th Airborne Brigade was eliminated by the Russian Mi-8 helicopter. There are concentrated forces, ready to respond to all the calls of the enemy, added a spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces. The Russian army concentrated near the Kupyansk group of 100,000 people and more than 2,000 units of heavy equipment.

This may be necessary to create a voltage point in Kupyansk by analogy with Bakhmut or Avdiivka, says military expert, Alexei Hetman's reserve. "Over time, it is necessary to observe how many Russians concentrate in the Kupyansk forces and means. If it is a very large number, the Armed Forces will have to pull their reserves. Even in the presence of modern weapons, if the enemy is quantitatively 10 times higher to stop.

It is advisable to keep approximate parity in living strength and technique, "he explained. According to the expert, the Russians practically exhausted resources near Avdiivka. Inside the Russian Federation. The enemy does not have enough reserves and will need to throw troops from other areas of the front, the hetman says. The commander of the Armed Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Sirsky, was recently spoken about the significant aggravation of the situation in Lyman and Kupyansk directions.

"The enemy, after the loss he had caused, two months later he restored the forces and began active offensive actions in the Makeevka area [Luhansk region], and later in Kupyansk direction. Heavy fights continue . . . The enemy leads a dense mortar and artillery fire on ours positions, "he wrote on Telegram on October 14. Russian bloggers write about the "complete departure" of the Armed Forces from Sinkivka to northeast of Kupyansk, but there is no evidence yet.

In the construction of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, it is said that last day the invaders attacked Ukrainian positions in the areas of the villages of Sinkivka and Ivanivka in the Kupyansk direction 15 times. The attacks were reflected by Ukrainian units. We will remind, Russian warships on October 6 called the maneuvers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the line of Kupyansk-Svatove-Kremenna "large-scale" offensive.