Mandatory evacuation from Kupiansk district (Kharkiv Oblast) is underway

Residents of the Kupiansk district in Kharkiv Oblast in northeastern Ukraine are being evacuated due to active hostilities in the area.

Source: Ukrinform, citing Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, on the 24/7 national newscast

Quote from Syniehubov: "Regarding evacuation from the Kupiansk front, which is currently the hottest: it is where the frontline is currently located, and enemy forces are relentlessly trying to attack the positions of our forces. That’s why we announced mandatory evacuation. We are trying to explain this to local residents."

Details: Syniehubov said that Russian forces shell cities, towns and villages in the Kupiansk hromada [an administrative unit that comprises the city of Kupiansk and its adjacent territories - ed.] every day. In light of this, civilians – especially families with children and individuals with limited mobility – were being evacuated from the area.

"The Oblast Military Administration and volunteer organisations are making efforts to evacuate everyone who wants to leave unsafe locations," the head of the administration said.

He explained that everyone who had been evacuated received humanitarian aid and free accommodation in safer parts of Kharkiv Oblast or in other Ukrainian oblasts.

The city of Zhytomyr, for instance, is prepared to welcome and comfortably accommodate 500 families with children from Kupiansk.

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