Ukraine claims to have carried out its ‘most massive’ attack

Russian forces have managed to establish a bridgehead by crossing the Oskil, a river in eastern Ukraine which until now separated the positions of the two camps, a local official announced Thursday, a new sign of difficulties that kyiv meets on the front.

The Russian army had attempted several times in recent months to cross this river which has its source in Russia, where it is called Oskol, and which passes in particular through the disputed city of Koupiansk. “The enemy is trying to gain a foothold in the town of Dvoritchna, which is already on the right bank of the Oskil, and to expand the entire bridgehead,” Andrii Bessedin told Ukrainian television. at the head of the Kupiansk military administration.

According to him, the situation is “extremely difficult” for the Ukrainian forces, who risk being threatened on their flanks. Russian soldiers had easily crossed this river in the first weeks of the invasion in 2022, before being pushed back.

This local official also affirmed that the Russian units were only two kilometers from Kupiansk, a town which had around 25,000 inhabitants before the war and which constitutes the main Ukrainian position in this sector of the front.