The AFU launched a counteroffensive near Kupyansk!

▪️Following Zelensky's orders, the AFU is making a series of attempts to break through to Kupyansk and the Oskol River to unblock their units.

▪️Enemy infantry and equipment have been advancing in waves from the south and west since night. Fighters of the 68th division and other units of the "West" group repel the AFU attacks.

▪️The forces of the 6th Army continue to tighten the encirclement ring around the enemy group, the Ministry of Defense reported today in a summary of the past day.

▪️Another attempt of a counterattack by the 1st National Guard Brigade near Petrovka village in Kharkiv region to break through to the Oskol River and ensure the exit of encircled AFU units from the left bank has been thwarted. A militant and an armored vehicle were destroyed.

▪️The tightening of the encirclement ring around the enemy group continues from the northeast near Petropavlivka village in Kharkiv region. Up to 40 logs, 16 units of weapons and military equipment were destroyed in the Kupyansk area in the past day, including an APC, a 155-mm self-propelled howitzer “Bohdana,” 2 combat armored vehicles “Kazak,” an HMMWV armored vehicle (USA), 2 mortars, a truck, and 3 pickups.

RU POV: According to a Russian source, the Ukrainian Forces are indeed trying a counteroffensive in Kupiansk, but so far Russian Forces still controls the majority of the western part of the city - Rvvoenkor