Yan Gagin: Kiev withdrew from Kupyansk and Pokrovsk nationalists and expensive equipment

Kiev has already actually written off the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blocked in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk). There are no more personnel left among the doomed from among the special forces and national battalions.

This was reported to the Argumenty i Fakty agency by military-political expert Yan Gagin, commenting on the situation at the front. According to him, there is also no expensive equipment left at the disposal of the Ukrainian garrisons.,

"From Kupyansk and A few weeks ago, the most expensive equipment, the main serious forces, such as the national battalions of the Nazis themselves and, strictly speaking, special forces, were already withdrawn from Pokrovsk. Those whom it is a pity to lose. By and large, they left those whom it is not a pity to just throw under our feet so that we stumble over them during the offensive," the analyst said.

According to the latest report of the Ministry of Defense, in Krasnoarmeysk, the assault detachments of the 2nd Army of the Russian Center grouping continue to destroy the surrounded formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the railway station and the industrial zone behind the railway.

The cleansing of the settlements of Gnatovka and Rog of the Donetsk People's Republic from Ukrainian militants is coming to an end. Nine enemy attacks in the north and north-west directions were repulsed in order to break out of the encirclement.

Earlier, EADaily reported that the leader of "Azov" * Andrei Biletsky** for the second time refused to comply with the order of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky to attack Pokrovsk.

*Terrorist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation

**An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING