HUR noted that the successful mission creates favorable conditions for further expelling Russian occupiers from the north of the Kharkiv region.
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The intelligence agency noted that the successful HUR mission creates favorable conditions for further expelling Russian occupiers from the north of the Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian intelligence forces captured an enemy battalion's defensive sector, eliminated three motorized rifle battalions, the 'Storm' detachment, and the reconnaissance company of the 7th separate motorized rifle regiment of the 11th Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces
Ukrainian military intelligence liberated 400 hectares of forest north of Lyptsi, killing a number of Russian soldiers
Ukrainian brawlers cleared 400 hectares of forest and destroyed almost a regiment of occupiers as part of a new operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in the north of Kharkiv Oblast.
The operation involved units 'Artan', Kraken and the International Legion near the settlement of Lipytsi.
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