Forest clearance in the Kharkiv region — GUR announced the details of the operation

The combat operation lasted six months.

Defense forces of Ukraine liberated a forest massif in the Lyptsiv district, thwarting the enemy's plans to attack Kharkiv. The mission lasted almost half a year – from May to October 2024.

The participants of the military operation told about this in an interview with “24 channel”.

The active action units of the Kraken and Artan HURs, the International Legion, the Legion “Freedom of Russia”, as well as national guardsmen and soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were involved in the operation. Their concerted joint actions did not allow the occupiers to approach Kharkiv at a distance from which they could fire artillery at the city.

According to the interlocutors of the publication, the active phase of the operation took place according to “salami tactics”. In the vanguard were the “shock fists of the GUR” – units of “Artan” and “Kraken”. They knocked out the enemy from the nearest positions and entrenched themselves there. After that, the legionnaires were driven to captured positions…