Just 40 kilometers away from the Russian border, in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv Oblast, stands a small town scarred by months of occupation and ongoing relentless shelling. Once home to about 27,000 people, Kupiansk now has only about 20% of its pre-war population left.
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Residents of the Kupiansk district of Kharkiv Oblast refuse to evacuate; most often, they are pensioners, but it happens that young families with children do not want to go either, said Andrii Besedin, Head of the Kupiansk City Military Administration.
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