MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. All the districts in Kupyansk in the Kharkov Region are under the Russian army’s control, Battlegroup West Spokesman Leonid Sharov told TASS on Tuesday.
"I am staying at a forward command post of the 121st Motor Rifle Regiment of the 68th Motor Rifle Division of the Battlegroup West’s 6th Combined Arms Army. Battlegroup West units continue accomplishing combat objectives in the zone of the special military operation. The city of Kupyansk is under the control of the 6th Combined Arms Army," the spokesman said.
Battlegroup West forces are firmly rebuffing all the Ukrainian army’s attacks on communities near Kupyansk, keeping them under their control, he said.
"Battlegroup units are firmly repelling enemy attacks on the settlements of Tishchenkovka, Moskovka and Sobolevka, retaining control of these communities and engaging the adversary by artillery fire and strike drones at distant approaches, preventing it from breaking through towards Kupyansk," the spokesman said.
Attack drone teams and artillery crews of Russia’s Battlegroup West struck a group of the Ukrainian army’s Colombian mercenaries near Kupyansk, he said.
