During the offensive of the Armed Forces, they wanted to establish control over water supply of Kharkiv region - the Armed Forces fighter
This was announced in the comment by Espresso as a serviceman and the chairman of the Council of Reservists of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ivan Tymochko. According to him, the fact that the occupiers in Kharkiv region have passed deep into the Ukrainian territory for a distance of up to 3-5 km away is an attempt at a tactical level of completion of the task.
"The Russians had the task in the north of Kharkivshchyna to leak in small groups and to fix up to the approach of the main forces to create a number of bridgeheads. Their task was to reach the distance of fire damage to the Kharkiv area and in the future to cover the city from the flanks. Since the Russian contingent is not enough in Kharkiv region Attack Kharkiv in the forehead, "Timochko explained.
According to the military, the Russians chose the Oscil reservoir by their goal, and they also hoped to take control and channel Siversky Donets, from which water is supplied to the agglomeration of Kramatorsk - Slavyansk. After that, they would try to move towards the Pechenezh reservoir to control the supply of water to Kharkiv. "In this way, the situation was observed that the Russians intended to create certain blasting or certain environmental disasters.