A military expert, retired Lieutenant Colonel Andriy Marochko of the Luhansk People’s Republic, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces brought additional forces and equipment to the Kupyansk region at night. It has been reported DEA News.
“It was noted that from the settlement of Kupyansk, in the direction of the settlement of Svatovo, small columns of Ukrainian armed formations moved mainly at night,” Marochko said, citing his own sources.
He also noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine mainly shoots Western-style artillery systems and ammunition for them.
Earlier it was reported that since the beginning of February, units of the 40th artillery and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army were present. loss At least five American M777 howitzers of 155 mm caliber in the Kupyansk direction.
Prior to this, Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said that the Russian army destroyed Up to 70 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
Source: Gazeta
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