Units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces continue defensive operations in challenging sectors of the front, including Pokrovsk, Vovchansk, and Kupiansk, while the Kremlin’s claims that Russian forces have “captured” these settlements do not correspond to reality.
In Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue both defensive operations and search-and-strike actions aimed at locating Russian invaders who managed to infiltrate through Ukrainian defensive lines.
The information about 14 children in Kupiansk, provided by the police, concerns the Kupiansk district as a whole, while over the past two months there have been three evacuations of children from the city itself.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin's statements about supposed encirclement of Ukrainian forces in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, were fabrications and fantasies not based on any factual evidence.
Russian forces are currently present in the northern part of Kupiansk and are attempting both to bypass the city and to break through toward its center.
On the morning of October 19, Russian forces shelled one of the settlements in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, killing a 71-year-old local resident.
Soldiers of the 10th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces have intercepted a radio transmission in which a Russian serviceman gives an order to execute a civilian in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.
Russian troops shelled the city of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the enemy attack, a 49-year-old woman was killed and another man was wounded.
In Kupiansk, Russian occupiers are using “masquerade” tactics: sabotage and reconnaissance groups dress in civilian clothes and try to infiltrate the city to gather data and take photos with the Russian flag.
In the city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian defenders are carrying out counter-sabotage operations, blocking and eliminating Russian invaders in forests, private residential areas, and on the outskirts.
Ukrainian forces are conducting a counter-sabotage operation in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, with Russian sabotage group members already taken prisoner. For civilians who remain in the city, the situation is critical, though evacuations continue despite the risks.
The situation in Kupiansk and its surrounding areas is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with counter-sabotage operations ongoing in the town.