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Ukrainian forces block access to Kupiansk and surround Russian troops in the city

12 December 2025 16:35 (UTC +04:00)

Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully repelled a Russian attack near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, APA reports, citing RBC-Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces blocked access to the city and surrounded the Russian troops, according to the Khartiia Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Defense Forces blocked the Russians in Kupiansk and cleared the entire northwestern outskirts of the city.

Ukrainian defenders eliminated 1,027 Russian troops, liberated the villages of Kindrashivka and Radkivka and their surroundings, and broke through to the Oskil River north of Kupiansk, completely blocking the Russian ground routes into the city.

The Russian group in Kupiansk, which now numbers over 200 servicemen, is surrounded.

Russia carries out daily attacks with platoon-sized forces, attempting to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops north of Kupiansk.

Ukrainian Defense Forces repel all these attacks with significant losses for the Russians. Ground access for Russians to Kupiansk is completely blocked.

All exits from the gas pipeline, through which Russians used to enter the city, are also under fire control. Russia is supplied exclusively by aerial drones.

"Fighting in the city center is still ongoing, but eventually Ukrainian Kupiansk will be completely liberated!" says Colonel Ihor Obolenskyi, call sign Kornet, commander of the 2nd Khartiia Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine.

The operation was planned and commanded by the 2nd Khartiia Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine in cooperation with the tactical group Kupiansk and under the direct control of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, and the Commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Oleksandr Pivnenko.