Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that Russian troops are actively advancing in the direction of Kupyansk, as well as in the direction of Avdeevskiy and Maryinskiy.
He wrote that in the east the situation is “slightly escalating” and for the past two days the Russian army has “actively advanced” in the direction of Kupyansk in the Kharkov region, as well as in the Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions.
“We are on the defensive. There are violent clashes,” Malyar said.
The Deputy Minister of Defense also said that on the northern flank, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is trying to protect its positions. According to him, in the Bakhmut region (Russian name Artemovsk), the Armed Forces of Ukraine “make daily progress.”
How declaration Retired lieutenant colonel Andrey Marochko from the Lugansk People’s Republic of Ukraine (LPR) is sending separate groups of foreign mercenaries in the direction of Kupyansk. At the same time, Marochko noted that most of them were engineering and digger units.
Formerly in the Armed Forces in the open Source of information on the departures of Russian strategic aviation.