Russian shelling on Kharkiv region village kills 73-year-old woman

A 73-year-old woman was killed in Russian shelling on the Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi village in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Saturday.

The ministry also stated that the Russian army had been shelling different settlements in the region for over a day, with houses and outbuildings getting damaged.

Yesterday, 11 August, the governor of the Kharkiv region Oleh Synehubov said on Ukrainian TV that 63 people, including nine children, had been evacuated from the Kupiansk district in two days due to the constant shelling in the area.

Synehubov explained that the local government was considering forced evacuation of children from dangerous areas, the city of Kupiansk among them. According to the official data, 523 children remain there. “All the evacuated [residents] receive humanitarian aid and temporary accommodation,” he added.

Evacuation was declared on the de-occupied territories of the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region on 10 August. According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, a 60-year-old woman was killed in a Russian attack on the Podoly village on that day.