KYIV: Ukrainian forces mentioned that they had retaken components of the northeastern city of Kupiansk and had encircled Russian troops there as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the world and praised the operation, saying it strengthened Ukraine diplomatically.
With US-backed peace efforts underway, Moscow has mentioned it’s advancing on all fronts and that it has seized Kupiansk and the strategic metropolis of Pokrovsk within the east. Kyiv has denied this, saying that the preventing is continuous.
In a video clip posted on his social media account on Friday (Dec 12), Zelenskyy, carrying a bulletproof vest, is seen standing in entrance of an indication bearing the city’s title on the entrance to Kupiansk.
“At present this can be very necessary to realize outcomes on the entrance strains in order that Ukraine can obtain ends in diplomacy,” Zelenskyy mentioned within the clip.
RUSSIANS IN KUPIANSK “COMPLETELY CUT OFF”, KYIV SAYS
Ukraine’s Khartiia Corps of the Nationwide Guard mentioned it had liberated a number of northern districts of Kupiansk.
Russian provide routes have been minimize off and several other hundred Russian troops are surrounded, Khartiia mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.
Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm the battlefield experiences.
“At present, we will say that the Russians within the metropolis are utterly minimize off. For a very long time, they could not perceive what was occurring. However now they know they’re surrounded,” Ihor Obolienskyi, Khartiia’s commander, was quoted by the Ukrainska Pravda information outlet as saying.
Russia, which started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, didn’t instantly touch upon the Ukrainian assertions.
Ukraine’s Deep State battlefield mapping challenge now reveals at the very least three villages to the north and west of Kupiansk beneath Ukrainian management.
Kupiansk’s northern districts are additionally proven as being beneath Ukrainian management, and the map suggests Russian troops are encircled within the metropolis centre.
Army analysts mentioned that in November, the tempo of Russian advances had picked as much as its highest this yr as troops moved ahead, taking management of smaller villages.
Russia mentioned on Thursday it had captured the jap city of Siversk. Kyiv mentioned it remained beneath Ukrainian management.
