Nov 15, 2025
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The army of the invading country in this municipality of Kharkiv province has natural obstacles, which resist the invasion with the help of Moscow.
More troops, forests and a river: This is how Ukraine leaves Russia in Kupyansk
There is a natural barrier in this municipality of Kharkiv district to help the army of the occupying country resist the attacks of Moscow.
There are two cities in eastern Ukraine where street fighting takes place.One is Pokrovsk in the Donetsk Oblast and the other is Kupyansk in the Kharkiv Oblast.Both are places of great strategic importance.But if everything points to Pokrovsk falling into the hands of the invaders in the short term, the Ukrainian military has so far been able to reverse what is believed to be a defeat at Kupyansk in the summer.
Reinforcements added this summer, better coordination of brigades, local terrain advantages and the concentration of Russian troops on Pokrovsk allowed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to continue to hold the Kupyansk bastion.
On the screen of the command post of Magnet, code name of the commander of the 151st Ukrainian assault and reconnaissance battalion, a smoking building appears.Their bomb drones are punishing this apartment block in the center of Kupiansk.Defenders believe that Russian soldiers took refuge there.An hour after hitting the building, observation drones transmit images of six human figures exiting the portal carrying bags.They are civilians, who run to take refuge in the basement of the nearby building.Magnet immediately calls off the attack and asks the troops on the ground to go to the shelter to confirm that they are not from the enemy side.
Within minutes, two Ukrainian Stormtroopers burst into the basement.They quickly identified themselves as civilians and fled the scene to safety.A group of neighbors will remain there."It is impossible to evacuate them. It will cause casualties to our soldiers and each other," says Magnet.The officer estimated that 800 civilians may remain in Kupiansk, out of a pre-war population of 26,000.This city has something special.It is the first large-scale municipality that could potentially be occupied by Russia for a second time.Russian authorities captured it in February 2022, but it was liberated by a Ukrainian counterattack in September of the same year.
The headquarters of the 151st Battalion is 151 miles, which is the narrowest of the camps.Russian."On the road where we have 10 cars, they have guides saying, 'Please tell them.'
But the scene testified by El País on November 6 on the monitors of the 151st Battalion shows that Ukrainian armed forces have the situation in the borough under control, albeit a gray zone, that is, neither side dominates the landscape.Compared to August and last September, when the Russian development in the urban area was rapidly lightning, the situation for Ukrainian interests improved.They not only stopped the invader inside Kupiansk: President Volodymyr Zelensky said on November 7 that his men pushed the invader back more than a kilometer to the remote neighborhoods.
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Accent, the code name for the battalion commander of Ukraine's 43rd Mechanized Brigade, confirmed that with more troops, his army could advance towards Kupyansk."The Russians want a big political victory as soon as possible, be it Pokorovsk or Kupyansk, and our big problem is the lack of troops," says Akcent.The colonel calculated that his men could stay in position for 200 days without rotating for rest.The first of the war.During the year, the infantry shift was weekly.
Another important aspect of the resistance of the Ukrainian people in the city of Kupyansk, according to the testimony of one of the officers of the four victories consulted in the area during the summer, but also, unlike Pokrovsk, the nature is first class.
The first thing you notice on the roads connecting the provincial capital, Kharkiv, with Kupiyask, is the intense movement of both infantry and tanks.In other areas of the front, the use of these vehicles has declined rapidly, as they are easy targets for drones.But the western part of Kupiyask, where the Ukrainian army enters the municipality, is surrounded by large areas of forest.Under the trees, with maximum security, these armored vehicles The processions of soldiers with chariots are made up to the first streets of the city.
Another reason for this is what is happening in Pokrovsk, where on November 3the possibility of the strengthening of the strong Ukrainian army to the city will do it facelessly, by helicopter.
Privid is not yet 30 years old and has already fought as a striker in some of the most important battles of this war.He is an officer in the National Guard's 15th Brigade, Kupianske, but knows Pokrovsk inside and out, having been stationed there a year ago.He still has comrades in this Russian-besieged city and points out that the success of Kupiansk is that the attacker does not devote as many resources as in Pokrovsk.An example of this, Prividas says, is the number of aerial bombs that Russia drops on Ukrainian positions in the two enclaves: if 50 to 100 Russian aerial bombs are dropped on Pokrovsk a day, they do not exceed 20 on Kupianske.
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The OSKI river barrage
But the Russians have another disadvantage in Kubiansk, Magnet explains, because to supply their soldiers in the city they have to cross the Oskil River, which surrounds Kubiansk on its eastern bank.Only, says the magnet.
Accent claims that the Russians have “enormous logistical problems” and that, to balance the balance, they have concentrated 80% of their artillery and drone fire on Ukrainian air bases since August.
Accent's battalion defends the village of Kupiansk-Vuzlovii, just south of Kupiansk.This is a major Ukrainian stronghold on the left bank of the Oskil River and a key position to prevent enemy forces from crossing the river.Kupiansk-Vuzlovii is also an important railway junction to the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.
If the Kremlin forces drive the Ukrainians from the land, Oskil, Spren, Soyl and Tepe belong to the leadership of the neighborhood and the neighborhoods, the latest nodes, and the most control possible in this province.Colonel of the 43rd Brigade, it will be more difficult to restore Lugansk.
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