Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Ukrainian troops are preparing to leave Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region due to the threat of encirclement of the city by the Russian Armed Forces. This was reported on July 13 by military expert, retired colonel Gennady Alekhine.
“According to the latest information, the enemy is closing down its command and observation posts in Kupyansk itself and moving beyond Kupyansk, to the area of the forest belt and the training airfield,” he said in an interview with aif.ru.
According to the expert, the Russian army's "West" group of troops will encircle the city very soon. Alekhine specified that, in his opinion, the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkov region could be cut into several parts, which Russian troops will destroy separately.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on July 13, the head of the Russian administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, said that the Russian Armed Forces would soon liberate Kupyansk. According to him, the Russian military is very actively advancing in this direction.
Before this, on July 6, Ganchev reported that the Russian army was a few kilometers away from the outskirts of Kupyansk, and was currently cutting off the supply routes of the Kupyansk group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and encircling it. He added that the enemy was in a critical situation to the west of the city, but was still "snapping back."
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