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On Lyman-Kupiansk, enemy is actively using guided bomb units and conducting assault operations, but has no success, - Ground Forces
Censor.NET
20.11.23 20:35
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In Lyman-Kupiansk, the enemy is actively using guided bomb units, infantry assault groups and equipment, but cannot succeed.
This was stated by the head of the public relations service of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Volodymyr Fito, on the air of the telethon, Censor.NET reports with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.
“In the Lyman direction, the enemy is trying to find weaknesses in the Ukrainian defense. Regrouping is carried out. Due to the fact that the terrain there is more forested, more guided aerial bombs are being sent in this direction. It should be understood that this weapon has a great destructive effect due to its weight,” he said.
Fito added that the enemy is trying to carry out attacks in the Lyman direction, but has no success either in this direction or in the Kupiansk direction.
Fito said that in the Kupiansk direction, active hostilities are taking place in the direction of the Synkivka settlement. Synkivka.
“If the enemy succeeds in this direction, this will make it possible to develop offensive actions directly on Kupiansk itself and reach the banks of the Oskil River. In the Kupyansk direction, 6 enemy attacks were repelled. The enemy carried out 8 airstrikes in total in the Lyman-Kupyansk direction,” Fito said.
He said that the enemy also used guided aerial bombs, 11 drones were launched at the positions of Ukrainian defenders. In total, the enemy carried out 455 attacks. The losses of the enemy in the Lyman-Kupyansk direction during the day are 165 occupiers and 11 units of enemy equipment were destroyed, including 1 tank and 1 infantry fighting vehicle.
Fito noted that the enemy uses both infantry, assault groups, and equipment.
“There are different distances between enemy positions. Where long distances, in order to get as close as possible to the infantry, it is necessary to use armored vehicles to deliver the infantry through the fields. It is all destroyed that the intensity of the fighting at the moment is more or less stable. It depends only on weather conditions. In adverse weather, less equipment is used, but this does not apply to artillery,” he said.
Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready for combat operations in winter, - Austin
News Censor.NET War in Ukraine
20.11.23 22:00
https://censor.net/en/n3456755
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin believes that the Ukrainian armed forces are ready for combat operations in the winter and have all the necessary means to succeed.
This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.
“I think Ukrainian forces are ready for combat in the winter, and of course they did a great job last year,” Austin said at a briefing in Kyiv.
The head of the Pentagon added that the latest $100 million military aid package, in particular, includes winter equipment.
“So yes, they have all the means they’re going to need to succeed in fighting in the winter. And I think, I agree with President Zelenskyy, that the right decision is to continue to press, to fight the enemy,” Austin said.