diff --git a/src/uu/cp/src/cp.rs b/src/uu/cp/src/cp.rs
index 7207673a5..3b02c2c58 100644
--- a/src/uu/cp/src/cp.rs
+++ b/src/uu/cp/src/cp.rs
@@ -2108,6 +2108,10 @@ fn copy_file(
         .into());
     }
 
+    if options.verbose {
+        print_verbose_output(options.parents, progress_bar, source, dest);
+    }
+
     if options.preserve_hard_links() {
         // if we encounter a matching device/inode pair in the source tree
         // we can arrange to create a hard link between the corresponding names
@@ -2121,10 +2125,6 @@ fn copy_file(
         };
     }
 
-    if options.verbose {
-        print_verbose_output(options.parents, progress_bar, source, dest);
-    }
-
     // Calculate the context upfront before canonicalizing the path
     let context = context_for(source, dest);
     let context = context.as_str();
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_cp.rs b/tests/by-util/test_cp.rs
index 3b4ec74f7..ca592f6fd 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_cp.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_cp.rs
@@ -608,6 +608,36 @@ fn test_cp_arg_link_with_same_file() {
     assert!(at.file_exists(file));
 }
 
+#[test]
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+fn test_cp_verbose_preserved_link_to_dir() {
+    use std::os::linux::fs::MetadataExt;
+
+    let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
+    let file = "file";
+    let hardlink = "hardlink";
+    let dir = "dir";
+    let dst_file = "dir/file";
+    let dst_hardlink = "dir/hardlink";
+
+    at.touch(file);
+    at.hard_link(file, hardlink);
+    at.mkdir(dir);
+
+    ucmd.args(&["-d", "--verbose", file, hardlink, dir])
+        .succeeds()
+        .stdout_is("'file' -> 'dir/file'\n'hardlink' -> 'dir/hardlink'\n");
+
+    assert!(at.file_exists(dst_file));
+    assert!(at.file_exists(dst_hardlink));
+    assert_eq!(at.metadata(dst_file).st_nlink(), 2);
+    assert_eq!(at.metadata(dst_hardlink).st_nlink(), 2);
+    assert_eq!(
+        at.metadata(dst_file).st_ino(),
+        at.metadata(dst_hardlink).st_ino()
+    );
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn test_cp_arg_symlink() {
     let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();