Russian troops will try to capture Kupiansk by New Year - Analyst
Photo: Russian troops attempt to capture Kupiansk (Getty Images)
Russian military forces plan a classic encirclement of the city. Overall, their plan involves capturing Kupiansk by the New Year, states military-political analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko from the Information Resistance group in a comment to RBC-Ukraine on YouTube.
"They will move north. They have now reached the left bank of the Oskil River and will continue moving north. At the same time, they will be forming their flanks. They will be closing in their flanks," the expert noted.
He explained that the main objective of the Russian military is to reach Kupiansk while simultaneously creating the possibility of strikes from the north, east, and south.
"In other words, a classic encirclement of the city to initiate assault actions. I believe they will try to accomplish this by the New Year, but the question is whether they will succeed," he emphasized.
According to the head of the Kupiansk city military administration, Andrii Besedin, on Tuesday, October 29, Russian troops were already 2.5 to 3 kilometers from Kupiansk.
At the same time, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, emphasized that Russian forces are shelling the Kupiansk community daily, resulting in the evacuation of up to 200 people from there each day.
Additionally, according to him, the Russian troops are attacking crossings on the Oskil River, complicating the evacuation of Kupiansk and other nearby settlements.
According to a report from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), there is a slight advancement of the enemy near Kupiansk.
