It urged civilians near the north-eastern front line to evacuate. Read more at straitstimes.com.
– Ukraine urged civilians near the north-eastern front line to evacuate on Thursday as Russia ramped up an assault to capture territory already seized once during the conflict.
“In the course of offensive operations near Kupiansk, assault teams of the Western battle group improved their positions along the forward edge of the front line,” it said in a daily briefing.on Thursday, the Ukrainian officials said.“A fire broke out in a civilian building after the occupiers hit it with a missile. One person is currently reported dead,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
“It looks like the Russians are erasing places in the Kupiansk area,” said Prof Rostyslav Melnykiv, a professor at a university in Kharkiv.One resident in the small town of Kivsharivka just outside Kupiansk said she was preparing to evacuate with her children, while her husband refused to leave in order to care for his elderly mother.
Moscow said earlier on Thursday it had downed 11 Ukrainian drones nearing the Crimean peninsula and two heading for Moscow, in the latest in a wave of attacks targeting Russia and Russian-held territory. Wednesday’s blast killed one woman and 15 people were still being treated in hospital according to the latest health ministry update.
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