The enemy drove deep into the city for three kilometers, but it was stopped by the efforts of two mechanized brigades. The Ukrainian command confirmed that the Russians had four waves of storms, but all the attacks were reflected. Focus gathered statements of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, analysts and Ukrainian military on battles near Kupyansk in Kharkiv region.
The first official report on the breakthrough of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Kupyansk appeared on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian command on the evening of November 13. The General Staff confirmed that the Russians tried to penetrate the city in the east of Kharkiv region. The attack took place at 14:30 and the enemy went four waves.
15 armored vehicles of different types were tried to break into Ukrainian positions, including tanks, armored vehicles, and UR-77 demining installation. In addition, the Russians were dressed in the military uniform of the Armed Forces, stated in a statement of the General Staff. The command assured that the assault actions of the enemy were unsuccessful. The evening report reported that 12 storms (three times less than near Pokrovsk and Kurakhov) took place in the Kupyansk direction.
On November 14, the command clarified information about the battles near Kupyansk. The General Staff reported that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation could not break into the settlement. On the map you can see that from Kupyansk to Kharkiv - about 100 km (straight). At the same time, Roszma quotes the representative of the occupation administration Vitaliy Ganchev, who stated that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation seems to be fixed on the outskirts of Kupyansk.
Meanwhile, the analysts of the Deepstate project on the night of November 14 were told about fighting in Kupyansk. According to analysts, the Russians formed two columns (in the first column two MT-LB, BMP, Tank) and penetrated the city from the northeast. The events happened when it began to get dark. When the enemy was on the outskirts and moved towards the center, they were noticed by the Armed Forces fighters and neutralized.
The fighting map indicates that the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation came 3 km deep into the city. In the video from the Armed Forces fighters, you can see how the enemy's movement was noticed by BPAC 116 OMBR and 14 OMB. At first, the Ukrainian military reflected the first attack, then the second. However, from a half dozen Russian soldiers "scattered" the surrounding houses, the Deepstate post is said.
The Ukrainian military spoke about Kupyansk and the situation around the settlement in the east of Kharkiv region. Volunteer 24 Brigade "Aidar" Stanislav Bunyatov with the call sign "Osman" in the morning on November 14 assured that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation could not work inside the city. According to him, the Russians of the first wave of the offensive were neutralized, then the same fate beaten enemy reserves.
The Lieutenant of the Armed Forces with the call sign "Alex" confirmed that there are no Russians in Kupyansk. At the same time, the fighter emphasized that it would be worth finding out how the situation described by analysts of Deepstate. Among other things, the inscriptions of analysts mentioned that recently there was a "confusion" with Ukrainian and Russian positions recently on this front of the front.
They also suggested that the command deal with the actions of one of the brigades that kept the defense there. "Only the problem is that some units reflect unreal assaults in 20+ armor units, and others are shaking their finger in one place," said Alex Lieutenant. It should be noted that Focus wrote about the commentary of the head of Kupyansk city military administration Andriy Besedin. The official stated that the Russians really tried to plant a landing in the middle of the settlement.
Besedin stressed that all enemies were destroyed. The chairman of the Kharkiv Ova Oleg Synigubov did not specify the situation in the Kupyansk direction, but only repeated the data from the latest reports of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
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