The press center officer of the Western group, Yaroslav Yakimkin, said that the assault units of the group captured three strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kupyansk direction. TASS.
The losses of the enemy, according to him, amounted to about 40 soldiers.
“At the same time, five counterattacks were repelled with support from armored vehicles and forces up to one platoon each, consisting of the 43rd, 44th and 115th separate mechanized and 68th separate jaeger brigades,” the officer said.
He also said that the assault and army aviation teams carried out 14 attacks on the manpower accumulation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter declarationThat Ukraine may lose Kharkiv and Kupyansk due to the inability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to hold the line.
Prior to that, retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko of the LPR People’s Militia aforementionedThat the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction were comparable to the losses during the battle of Artemovsk.
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