Authorities urged residents of Kupyansky district of Kharkiv region to evacuate

The authorities of the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, controlled by Ukraine. urged residents to evacuate. This was announced by the acting head of the military administration of the region Andrei Kanashevich.

“We invite residents of the Kupyansky district to make a responsible and thoughtful decision to temporarily move to the safe territories of the Kharkiv region and Ukraine,” Kanashevich wrote on Facebook (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist, banned).

As the head of the military administration of the Kharkiv region Oleg Sinegubov stated, the forced evacuation of children from 53 settlements could be carried out in the region. “Tentatively, more than 11,000 people, including 600 children, are subject to evacuation,” he specified in his Telegram channel.

For the past few months, the Russian Ministry of Defense has been reporting a successful offensive in the Kupyansk direction. On August 9, the department stated that six attacks and counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the Novoselovsky districts in the LPR. A day earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian forces had taken more advantageous positions in the Olshany region of the Kharkiv region.

On August 8, the head of the military-civilian administration (CAA) of the region Vitaly Ganchev declaredthat the RF Armed Forces took control of five settlements in the Kharkov region. According to him, the movement of Russian forces “deep into enemy territory is quite active.”