MOSCOW, September 23. /TASS/. The Russian army has sealed off a large Ukrainian group north and west of Kupyansk, creating a semi-circle. The blockade continues from the south, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
TASS has gathered key information about the operation to liberate the city.
- At present, Russian troops have blocked a large enemy group from the north and the west, creating a semi-circle. Combat operations to blockade neo-Nazis from the south are still underway.
- According to the ministry, nationalists from the Freikorps squad, terrorists from the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC, recognized as a terrorist organization and outlawed in Russia), and special forces of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Intelligence are among the troops surrounded in Kupyansk.
- The number of Ukrainian troops blocked in Kupyansk amounts to 700, of whom 250 have already been eliminated, the Defense Ministry said.
