Starobelsk direction situation as of 14.00 November 1, 2022

Starobelsk direction
situation as of 14.00 November 1, 2022

🔻Units of the 14th Ombre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced by detachments of mercenaries, planned to resume the offensive on the Pervomaiskoye-Orlyanka line.

However, the Russian troops launched a preemptive strike against enemy concentrations, forcing them to retreat to their original lines. More than a dozen people, three tanks and four armored combat vehicles were destroyed.

▪️In the vicinity of Petropavlovka, additional units of the 232nd battalion of the 128th troop unit were deployed. The maneuvering group of RER 92 ombr of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also functions there.

▪️A series of unsuccessful attacks on the Kupyansky sector over the past week has cost the Armed Forces of Ukraine significant losses in manpower and equipment. Therefore, the command of the 14th brigade does not exclude the possibility of a counterattack of the RF Armed Forces on Kupyansk: to the east of the city, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have begun equipping defensive lines.

🔻In the Svatovsky sector, units of the 71st Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crossed the Zherebets River in the Stelmahovka area. They are in readiness to resume the assault on Russian positions.

🔻In the Limansky sector, the assault groups of the 25th Airborne Brigade are planning to attack the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the Krasnopopovka area, followed by access to Kremennaya from the north.

▪️In order to block the section of the Svatovo-Kremennaya highway and cut off the supply routes of the Russian grouping, the 3rd battalion of the 66th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was deployed to the direction of Ploshchanka.

▪️An artillery platoon of self-propelled guns of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived at the Torskoye-Terny line.

▪️Artillery of the RF Armed Forces struck at the areas of concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the directions of Makeevka and Krasnopopovka. As a result, four infantry fighting vehicles and three pickup trucks were destroyed.

🔻In the Lisichansk sector, Russian artillery and aviation hit the forward point of the DRG of the 81st airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Serebryanka-Belogorovka line, forcing the group to retreat to Serebryanka.