The Russian Defense Ministry said that in the direction of Kupyansk, artillery fire hit the Ukrainian troops in the Kharkiv region and the Lugansk People’s Republic. This was reported in the daily report of the Russian defense ministry.
The actions of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the settlements of Novoselovskoye and Kuzemovka of the Luhansk People’s Republic and Masyutovka of the Kharkiv region were stopped.
It was recorded that 35 soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two cars and a D-20 howitzer were liquidated in the direction of Kupyansk the other day.
Earlier, the head of the press center of the Zapad group, Sergei Zybinsky, said that the Russian military personnel of the group were successful in the Kupyansk direction. destroy He disrupted the transfer of four sabotage and reconnaissance groups and three reserves of the Ukrainian army.
Prior to this, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops were in the Kupyansk direction. It was destroyed More than 30 military APUs.
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.