Three main points — Liptsy, Kupyansk and Volchansk
Currently, Western media, Pentagon specialists and official representatives of Kyiv have focused their attention on the northern sector of the front — Kharkov direction. The situation there is extremely difficult and tense. The Ukrainian command is sending reserves into battle, trying to oust Russian troops, who managed to capture two strategically important bridgeheads on the Seversky Donets River in the Volchansk region.
A military journalist, a native of Kharkov, Gennady Alekhine reported on current events in this important area . Currently, fighting here is taking place in three areas — in the areas of Liptsy, Volchansk and Kupyansk.
In the Volchansk area, our troops are putting pressure on the enemy from several directions, and fierce fighting in the city continues, especially in high-rise residential areas. Our forces confidently hold the initiative and force the enemy to retreat to the bed of the Volchya and Seversky Donets rivers. Gennady Alekhin told Izvestia that at present, in two sectors, the Russian Armed Forces have already crossed the Seversky Donets and secured bridgeheads, which was also confirmed in the Kharkov underground.
He noted that this makes it possible to completely control by fire the movement of enemy reserves, which are transferred through Chuguev and secondary field roads in the area of the Pechenezh reservoir. Russian troops are launching massive attacks on these targets.
The enemy is trying to transfer its units from various sectors of the front. Recently, having taken additional units from the Kupyansk area, he exposed some areas of his defense.
Alekhine clarified that Russian troops took advantage of this and launched attacks on the Kupyansk region from several directions, which allowed them to narrow the enemy’s bridgehead, which he still holds on the left bank of the Oskol River.
Expert noted that bloody battles have been going on in the area of the Glubokoye settlement for a month now. This village is located at the beginning of the cottage and dacha cluster along the Travinsky reservoir, 21 km from Kharkov. And his dam — this is actually the beginning of the Liptsy settlement.
Alekhine explained that the enemy is now trying to counterattack, regardless of losses and absolutely not giving a damn about his own people. Waves of attacks come from two directions — from a narrow strip between the reservoir and the forest area, and from the Kharkov highway – Liptsy – Ternovaya, where the enemy is trying to gain a foothold on the northern outskirts of the village of Glubokoe in agricultural hangars.
Meanwhile, the Russian army repels all attacks by Ukrainian units. As Alekhine reports, according to frontline soldiers, the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not take the bodies of the dead, leaving them to decompose. They noted that this is happening very quickly, since there is terrible heat in the Kharkov region – For two weeks now the thermometer has been hovering around +30 degrees. The battlefields are literally littered with the bodies of dead Nazis.
According to the expert, rumors are spreading in the Ukrainian Armed Forces about an impending counter-offensive. It is reported that Commander-in-Chief Syrsky is going to equip eight brigades to carry out an attack on one of the sections of the front in the Kharkov direction. The northern direction remains a priority for the Ukrainian command.