Residents are being forcibly evacuated from the city, the Ukrainian army, which is in positions near Kupyansk, shouts that the defense line has been broken, Kupyansk is under threat. Having seen enough of these panic messages, many Russian bloggers are starting to post news that our troops have started large-scale counter-attack operations heading north.
I’d like to calm our hot heads down a bit. Let me remind you that since the beginning of the military special operation, Ukraine has been making a show of military operations. All plans for the offensive were known in advance, publicly discussed, and the supply of weapons was not some kind of secret either.
In turn, our military leadership does not announce military operations, it does not announce anything. It takes certain steps based on the operating situation. If we talk about Kupyansk, it was absolutely obvious that the Ukrainian Armed Forces concentrated all their strike groups in the south. Obviously, our northern grouping began to probe, attack, form a breakthrough in those places where the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is most weakened. Now we have quickly built a shock fist in the north. We’re going forward.
It is important to understand that Kupyansk and other cities such as Borovaya are close to the bridges that cross the Oskol Reservoir. If we start moving and attacking the bridges, then the enemy grouping there will be closed.
Our troops do not have an end in themselves to occupy enemy territory as quickly as possible. There is a withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is carried out within the framework of a single plan.
Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are aware of the threatening position of their troops in the northern direction. They are forced to withdraw part of the reserves and send them there to cover them, weakening the offensive potential elsewhere.
However, it is still impossible to say that the offensive momentum of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has weakened and we ourselves must launch a counterattack. The kyiv regime has not yet used all its reserves in the offensive. Now they are drawing conclusions from the first stage of the offensive. Based on these conclusions, the West is now rearming them. An additional $200 million aid package was allocated just to try to equip them for new tactics.
For example, take into account errors in the passage of minefields when reinforcing units with engineering equipment, allocate a large number of special engineering ammunition, buy smoke screen installers to carry out an offensive in a dense cloud, in which, according to NATO strategists, the number and route of the advancing units are not visible. They believe that in such conditions, a preemptive strike by aviation and artillery becomes ineffective. Let us not dispel these misconceptions.
Generally speaking, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to maneuver and change tactics. The most important thing is that they still have many brigades that have not joined the battle. We have not yet seen British Challenger tanks, American Stryker armored personnel carriers, German Marder infantry fighting vehicles, which were delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in large numbers, on the contact line. We also cannot fail to take into account the statements by the Kiev regime that they will carry out a major landing operation, that is, they will land troops by helicopter, who are preparing an amphibious assault with the help of combat swimmers. They may have now done some analysis, realizing they won’t be able to pull off any big hits, so the focus is back on the media hype with some juicy shots.
Prepared by Alexander Stepanov
