On the night of February 5, Russian troops shelled the city of Kupiansk and the village of Kozacha Lopan in the Kharkiv region. Also, the occupiers dropped air bombs on the village of Horyane.
Russian occupiers attacked Kharkiv region
The head of the Kharkiv RMA, Oleg Syniegubov, reported that about 18 populated areas of the Kharkiv region were hit by enemy artillery and mortar attacks. In particular:
Vesele
Hatishche
Budarka
Synkivka
Tabaiivka
Ivanivka
Berestove and others.
The occupiers increased the number of airstrikes, during the day they hit Mala Vovcha, Ustynivka, Vilkhuvatka, Khatne, Velykyi Burluk, Kamianka, Kolodyazne, Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Kucherivka, Ivanovka, Kyslivka, Kotlyarivka, Krokhmalne and Pishchane.
At 10:25, the Russian military struck the village Kozacha Lopan of Kharkiv district.
As a result of shelling at 11:00 p.m. Vasylivka of the Kupiansk district, a substation and a private house were damaged. There are no casualties.
At 12:06, enemy shelling took place in the city of Vovchansk. The glazing and the facade of the administration building, the roof, and the ceiling of the Center for Administrative Service building were damaged. Four private houses were damaged. There are no casualties, Syniegubov said.
At 14:00, the enemy attacked the village of Kolodyazne in the Kupiansk district with aerial bombs. A two-story apartment building was destroyed.
At 8:30 p.m., as a result of enemy shelling by two aerial bombs, the village In the highlands of the Kupiansk district, an administrative building, a warehouse, and a workshop of an agro-enterprise were damaged, agricultural equipment was destroyed, and there was damage to electrical networks. The windows and fence of the nearby residential building were also damaged.
At 23:15, a private house was damaged as a result of shelling in the city of Kupiansk. No casualties. At 23:27, the occupiers struck the village Kozacha Lopan of Kharkiv district.
What Forbes writes about Russia's offensive in the Kharkiv region
Forbes previously published an article in which it was reported that Russian troops want to recapture the territory of the Kharkiv region, from which they were expelled in the fall of 2022 by March.
According to Ukraine's Eastern Command, Russia has assembled a vast army opposite Kupiansk, with 500 tanks, more than 600 combat vehicles, hundreds of howitzers and forty thousand troops.
A piece of Kharkiv region would be a gift to Putin on election day from the Russian army in Ukraine, Forbes explains.
As the journalists managed to find out, the occupiers on this part of the front were opposed by approximately 10 Ukrainian brigades, numbering about 20,000 soldiers, several hundred tanks, combat vehicles and howitzers.