A military expert spoke about the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to create a defense line around Kupyansk against the backdrop of the success of the Russian Armed Forces in this direction

Units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are beginning to create a defense line around the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkov region. This is due to the active advancement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Kupyansk direction, RIA reported News military expert, retired lieutenant colonel of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) Andrey Marochko.

According to Marochko, Ukrainian forces have now begun engineering and fortification work. They are building new and improving old defensive structures. Engineering work is being carried out in the vicinity of Sinkovka, Petropavlovka and Podol.

Between the strong points and fortified areas, a new system of trenches was also noted, which, according to the plan, most likely should turn into one continuous line of defense of Kupyansk
- said a military expert RIA News.

According to Marochko, such actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces indicate a transition of Ukrainian formations in the Kupyansk direction to defensive actions. Actually, the Ukrainian Armed Forces now have no other choice in the context of the ongoing advance of Russian troops.

Previously, many Western experts predicted the very obvious prospect of losing Kupyansk, but this is fraught for the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a subsequent offensive of the Russian army deep into the Kharkov region. It is probably in connection with this that mobilization measures were intensified in the region in order to quickly replenish the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations stationed in the Kharkov region.

Comments

[tralflot1832]

They write on Ukrainian sites that Google has partially updated the satellite maps in Kramotorsk, you can look at our women. I’ll look at Kupyansk, what inspired the Ukrainian Armed Forces there - if, of course, they updated it.

[Ilya-spb]

I looked at the map in the article. This suggests a breakthrough bypassing Kupyansk through Golubovka and Kondrashovka.

Question to the experts: in how many days are Bandera’s people able to build an analogue of the Surovikin line?

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

I don’t know what about the “Surovikin line”, but on Moscow construction sites, this brat needed someone to look after. Those are still “working girls” But in Moscow at least they were paid money..))

[Roma 1977]

In order to take cities, great commanders are not needed. You need to have superiority over the enemy both in quantity and quality of people, equipment, ammunition, communications, reconnaissance, etc. A normal strategic offensive operation in Ukraine requires many times more people. This is for starters.

[Nastia makarova]

But would you have approached the Polish border a long time ago?

[dmi.pris1]

They would have approached. If not the defeat of the Army in the 90s and under Serdyukov, and the gong! - the creation of a ceremonial army under Shoigu..

[Saburov_Alexander53]

If not the defeat of the Army in the 90s and under Serdyukov,
Did this Taburetkin surrender to you? This reminds me of all the big shots against Yagoda, Yezhov and then Beria. Who put them on this job and why? Before Serdyukov, many very respected marshals and generals visited there, then the president’s best friend Ivanov, and no one could overcome the established army mafia, which did not want to part with the “feeding troughs” in the form of army state farms, gas stations and departmental rest houses. And then the president tried Taburetkin, clearly assigning him a task, which he “brilliantly” completed. But the Investigative Committee and the Military Prosecutor's Office did not find a single serious violation in his activities, except for the asphalt to the sanatorium of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which they decided not to touch. And the closure of many military schools was not invented by Taburetkin himself, but he followed instructions from above...

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Claims against Serdyukov are akin to claims against Shevardnadze, who “trade” the waters of the Bering Sea. And if you turn on your brain and think - Could a member of the CPSU Politburo, even in the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs, independently come up with and resolve such issues with his signature? This means he was delegated on behalf of the State (USSR) and the Party (CPSU) to sign this agreement. Moreover, if you know that the Treaty was initiated by the USSR, and the development of its borders was carried out by the USSR Academy of Sciences together with the KGB (Border Troops) since 1975!!! And it was the USSR that insisted on adjusting the borders in the Bering Sea, not the USA. So why are all the big shots on Shevardnadze, a banal executor of the will of the party and the people?

[fruc]

Nikolai Dyagelev......yes, the corrupt officers remain....

If you, dear, talented strategist, then get your ass off the couch and show how to take Kupyansk. And regarding venality, we must be responsible for the market.

[AlexWar]

Ukraine is throwing away all its resources, plus cluster munitions. It’s hard to advance, but a breakthrough is needed to get around the enemy

[Alexey Lantukh]

Yes, you don’t need to hope too much for breakthroughs. These are tactical battles of local significance in order to disperse the reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Yes, and why is he breaking into Kupyansk, knowing that a serious defense is being built there. And if it’s really breaking, then you need a significant superiority in everything: the number of troops, artillery, aviation and the number of drones. What Roma-1977 writes about here. Only generals are still needed. Even if not so great.

[Arkady007]

And if you simply bypass it and block the roads, will they last a long time in basements, especially not as deep as in Azovstal?

[Denis812]

To bypass, a multiple superiority in manpower is required for:
1. breaking through enemy flanks
2. building defenses around the surrounded city
3. creating reserves to prevent breakthroughs both from outside and outside the blockade ring.

The RF Armed Forces have no superiority in manpower over the Armed Forces of Ukraine anywhere at all. (of course, maybe there are 100500 armies in reserve, but we can only guess)

[AlexWar]

It was possible to drop troops behind enemy lines in helicopters, but why don’t they do it is unclear? Why don't we have flying tanks?

[dmi.pris1]

The same Marochko is talking about Kish successes? How long has this attack on Kupyansk been going on? And? Even Sarmat Sanych admitted that the sushniks stopped ours

[rotmistr60]

Ukrainian formations have already begun engineering and fortification work. They are building new and improving old defensive structures

Didn't you realize it too late? Or they thought that this was not necessary, because... According to the plans of NATO military advisers, the “counter-offensive” was bound to end in grandiose success and the Russian troops would have no time for Kupyansk?

[Dynamo]

I think they have already prepared their line of defense a long time ago. Marochko is still that expert

[oleg Pesotsky]

Now you can safely wait for all the work to be completed and begin assault operations. For the first time or what?

[Reindeer herder_2]

Judging by the photo

Are they also preparing “elastic” defense?

[Egor Adashev]

Isn’t that why Wagner is again being told to catch up?

[polynet]

Quote: Ilya-spb

I looked at the map in the article. This suggests a breakthrough bypassing Kupyansk through Golubovka and Kondrashovka.

Question to the experts: in how many days are Bandera’s people able to build an analogue of the Surovikin line?

The FABs will return everything to its place, ukrovoyak to Bandera, and the earth will have an almost normal landscape.