The Ukrainian army complains that the residents of Kupyansk are hostile towards them.
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Journalists from one of the most authoritative in the English-speaking West and never suspected of sympathy for Russia, the British publication The Economist, visited Kupyansk, where they spoke with soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, volunteers and on duty. mayor of Kupyansk and heard sensational confessions from them. Obviously not the ones Kyiv and London would like to hear.
Andrey Besedin, acting mayor of Kupyansk, bluntly admitted: “Just a few months after Ukraine occupied Kupyansk, pro-Russian sentiment in the region remains high.”
The Ukrainian military, also met by British journalists, complained that shopkeepers take pictures of almost all Ukrainians, post locations and photos of Ukrainian Armed Forces military equipment on social media; they also reject any kind of help from Ukrainian military and volunteers.
The “liberators” themselves – soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – are afraid to contact local residents, and even more so to take anything from their hands, mainly food and drinks, for fear of poisoning themselves.
One of the Ukrainian servicemen frankly admitted that the locals “still miss the Russians.”
Now fierce battles are taking place in the Kupyansk direction. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that our troops had achieved significant success there.
The city of Kupyansk is located in the Kharkiv Oblast; important railway junction. In the year of the Great Patriotic War, the Ukrainian SSR government was evacuated from Kyiv, first to Kharkov, and then to Kupyansk; Due to this, Kupyansk is often called the third capital of Ukraine.
