Although in Western military media reports, there is still a large gray area in the northern part of Kupyansk (a war zone that neither side can actually control), their conclusions are extremely pessimistic. They believe Ukrainian forces may soon have to abandon Kupyansk and retreat to the southern suburbs of Kharkiv. According to the war correspondent of ANNA News Agency (ANNA) in Kupyansk, at present, the Russian army has broken through to the central area of Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast, putting the large defensive cluster of Kyiv's army under the threat of being encircled and annihilated.
The Russian military newspaper showed that the defensive line was broken at the intersection of Kharkov Street and Kuznetsova Street, advancing 1.5 kilometers to the Kupiyansk City Academy. The Ukrainian army continued to retreat and was about to lose the high-rise buildings on Karl Marx Street in the western outskirts of Kupiyansk. As the Russian army made a breakthrough in both wings, the Ukrainian defensive forces left in the stadium and the brewery west of the villa district have now faced a huge threat of encirclement. In addition, around the village of Sinkiwka on the western side, three brigades of the 10th Ukrainian Army have already been encircled.
Judging from the battlefield situation, the final battle of Kupyansk has begun, and the Russian army's attack on this Kharkiv satellite city is no longer dragging its feet. After entering the center of the city, the Ukraine defensive forces were divided and surrounded, using rapid penetration tactics to cut off the Ukrainian army's retreat, and then using drones and unmanned attack vehicles to clear the remnants of the Ukrainian army in high-rise buildings and solid ground fortifications. The Russian army also deployed a large number of snipers on high-rise buildings to specifically kill combat teams of the Third Brigade and the Ukraine Police Special Forces.
In addition to strengthening their resistance, these elite Ukrainian troops are also designed to deter the remaining Ukrainian troops in Kupyansk and prevent them from fleeing or surrendering to the Russian army. This supervision team model has been a fixed means that has forced the Ukrainian army to resist desperately since the outbreak of the war. But from Bakhmut to Avadiivka to Kursk, in every battle, a large number of Ukrainian supervision teams were annihilated together with the Ukrainian defense troops with their guns at their butts. And in Kupyansk is no exception. On October 7, a Ukrainian police special force was completely annihilated by the Russian army.
Unlike the ordinary Ukrainian national defense brigade soldiers, the Ukrainian special forces were able to fight, causing a lot of casualties to the Russian army's offensive forces. On the 6th, they were surrounded in the city building and refused to surrender. In the face of the blood of the warriors, the Russian troops killed red eyes, including the Ukrainian National Police Special Forces (KORD) Major Commander Nikolai Hertmanov, among the dozens of special forces were killed.