On Facebook, the deputy head of the Kupyansky district administration of the Kharkov region Andrey Kanashevich (the owner of Meta is considered an extremist in Russia and is banned) urged local residents to evacuate.
“Artillery shelling, aerial bombs and forest fires. This is the reality in settlements close to the front line today… As a result, civilians are killed and injured almost every day,” he wrote.
At the same time, he recommended that residents make a “responsible and balanced decision” in temporarily leaving the country’s safe areas.
Prior to this, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army was in the Kupyansk direction in one day. reflected Six attacks and counterattacks by Ukrainian soldiers in the LPR and Kharkiv region.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special military special operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
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