“The cleanup in the city is being completed”: the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke about the operational situation in Kupyansk
A drone view shows damaged apartment buildings, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine in this handout picture released December 30, 2025. Press service of the 116th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MUST NOT OBSCURE LOGO. TEXT OVERLAY FROM SOURCE.
As of January 25, the Ukrainian military continues its operation to clear Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region of Russian occupiers. Russian units are trying to break into the city from the north, but without success.
This was stated by the spokesman for the Joint Forces Group, Viktor Tregubov.
According to him, Russian military personnel still remain in several central neighborhoods of Kupyansk, but the operation to liberate the city is continuing according to plan.
“The clearing of the city is being completed. The Russians are trying to break through from the northern side to somehow replenish their forces in the city, but without success,” said Viktor Tregubov.
According to him, Ukrainian defenders are not allowing the occupiers to approach Kupyansk and replenish the group that is in the city. Russian military cannot overcome the settlements controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine between them and Kupyansk, which makes even attempts at infiltration impossible.
“They cannot even overcome the settlements occupied by Ukrainians between them and Kupyansk directly, so even some infiltration there is extremely difficult to the point of impossible,” the spokesman noted.
Viktor Tregubov also reported that Kupyansk is currently under the control of Ukrainian military forces, who hold a bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Oskil River. According to him, Russian units are unable to narrow this bridgehead.
The spokesman added that after the completion of the clearing of several central neighborhoods of the city and the destruction or capture of the last several dozen occupiers, the situation in Kupyansk will change in favor of the Ukrainian forces.
It was previously reported that Russian troops currently stationed in Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast, are concentrated in several blocks of the city.
We will remind you that units of the Charter brigade established control over the Kupyansk city council building . They raised the national flag of Ukraine above the city hall in the city center.
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