MOSCOW, 9 Oct. The Russian military lured the Ukrainian Armed Forces into a cauldron in the Kupyansk region, former CIA officer Larry Johnson said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue works.
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"According to reports, Russia lured a huge number of Ukrainians into the cauldron soldier,” he said.
According to him, the Russian military deprived Ukrainian fighters in the Kupyansk area of the opportunity to replenish their supplies, pointing out that the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area had only two ways out of their difficult situation.
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“When this cauldron closes, these soldiers will either be destroyed or they will have to surrender, and I think that this will be one of the biggest defeats for Ukraine,” he concluded.
On Sunday, the commander of the Bars-9 detachment of the Western Group of Forces with the call sign Medved said that the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk area had ended, and the Ukrainian command was preparing the city for defense. According to the military man, the enemy is not going on the offensive, there are no civilians in the area anymore. He added that during aerial reconnaissance it was possible to identify observation posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in residential buildings and take-off sites for reconnaissance drones and kamikaze drones.