Did they capture Kupyansk: an officer of the Armed Forces talked about the "chaos in the defense" and the risks of the occupation

Defense Forces fighters are in the city and fighting continues. "Alex" post about the situation in Kupyansk appeared on the morning of October 16. It is indicated that the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have not left the city, and the fighters of the Defense Forces control part of the settlement: it is not specified which neighborhoods and streets are in question. The officer added that the defense of the city is not all right.

"There is complete chaos in the defense, but as of today and yesterday [October 15, 16 — ed. ], no one left the city. The Kupyansk part is under the control of the SOU," the post reads. The report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, published on the morning of October 16, did not mention the escalation in Kupyansk.

The command reported that the lowest number of attacks by the Russian Armed Forces was counted in the specified direction - six, while near Pokrovsk - almost ten times more (56). The map of the front showed that the Russians approached the city from the north, meanwhile the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting "anti-sabotage measures" on the outskirts.

Meanwhile, analysts of the DeepState project marked the last changes in Kupyansk on September 12 and have not updated the data since then. According to analysts, the Russians penetrated the northern outskirts and made some progress along the P-79 highway towards the center. It should be noted that on October 13, People's Deputy Maryana Bezugla said that the Russian Armed Forces had almost captured Kupyansk and that the loss of the settlement was "a matter of time.

" According to the politician, the command is publicly talking about the "Dobropil breakthrough", while "the Russians are completely in the city". The military and blogger Bohdan Myroshnikov also wrote about the threatening situation. In the post dated October 15, it is emphasized that Kupyansk cannot be lost, because then the Russian Armed Forces will have wider opportunities for the operational-tactical level and before the return of the front line to the state of the summer of 2022.

Military expert Vladyslav Seleznyov drew attention to the efforts of the Russian Armed Forces to approach Kupyansk from the south, from the side of the settlement of Kupyansk-Vuzlovy. In his opinion, if the Russians capture the new bridgehead, they will be able to launch an attack on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. We remind you that DeepState analysts said that the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation invented in order to penetrate into Kupyansk.