UKRAINE, KUPIANSK, Nov. 3 — As of Nov. 3 650 civilians remain in Kupiansk, a city on the east of Kharkiv region, where active combat is taking place, said Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the region. 

Russia intensified its offensive on Kupiansk this summer. Russia aims to surround and occupy Kupiansk and seize Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, a city to the south of Kupiansk, an important logistics, railway hub for the region. 

Currently, Ukraine’s army is trying to push Russian troops out of Kupiansk. Office of Communications for Joint Forces grouping says Russians took areas in the north of the city, occupying 20% of it.  

Syniehubov also added that nearly 1,000 people remain in the Borova community — approximately 11kilometers (6 miles) from Borova, a central village of the community, to the zero line. 

Syniehubov said that Ukraine has nearly 3,000 places for temporary accommodation in the Kharkiv region, and 6,000 more places can be provided. He also said that authorities organized the logistics for the evacuation out of the Kharkiv region.  

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