“We have 6 kilometers left to Kupyansk,” he told RIA Novosti.
In early October, retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko reported that after the attack by the Russian Armed Forces, Ukrainian servicemen fled their positions near Kupyansk. According to him, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to hide in the forest area. As a result, a group of 15 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was attacked by artillery and suffered losses.
Subsequently, the Telegram channel “Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring,” referring to Ukrainian military channels, reported on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kupyansk that were trapped in the “pocket.”
On October 15, the military administration (MA) of the Ukrainian Kharkov region announced the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from Kupyansk. The head of the administration, Oleg Sinegubov, explained the decision by the “deterioration of the military situation.”
