The General Staff of the Ukrainian troops announced the tense situation on Kupyansk and Seversky directions.
"In the Kupyansk direction... the situation is tense… The situation is tense in the Seversky direction," the General Staff said in a message posted on the telegram channel.
Earlier, the head of the Russian administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, said that the Russian Armed Forces were clearing the road connecting Kupyansk and Svatovo, several villages along it had already come under the control of Russian troops. According to Ganchev, the Russian Armed Forces are slowly but surely moving towards Kupyansk itself.