Ukraine on Thursday ordered vulnerable people to evacuate the city of Kupyansk on its northeastern front under threat from Russian forces, the military administration said. “Mandatory evacuation of families with children and residents with limited mobility has begun in the Kupyansk community due to the constant shelling of the area by Russian forces.”said the military department of Kharkiv region.
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Constant bombings
On Saturday, February 18, the Russian army announced the capture of a settlement in Kharkiv region. “As a result of the offensive operations of the units of the “West” group in the direction of Kupyansk, the settlement of Grianikivka in Kharkiv region was completely liberated.”it is said in the press release of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
This site is located 20 km north-east of Kupiansk, the main city of this region of Kharkiv region, which was occupied by the Russians in the first days of the military intervention, a year ago. Then, after a lightning counterattack, the Ukrainians recaptured Kupyansk, which had about 30,000 inhabitants before the September war. It has been several days since Moscow’s forces, reinforced by the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of reservists in Russia, returned to the offensive in this sector.
Source: Le Figaro
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