General Staff: Russian Military Hit Borova and Kupiansk With Airstrikes

UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Mar 29 — Over the past day, Russian troops hit Borova and Kupiansk in the Kharkiv Oblast with airstrikes. 

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informed about this in a morning briefing.

Russian troops did not conduct any offensives in the Kupiansk direction over the past day.

In the Slobozhanskyi direction, in the border areas, the Russian military conducts intense sabotage activities to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops to more dangerous directions and increases the density of minefields along the state border in the Belgorod Oblast.

The Russian army fired mortars and artillery at more than 100 settlements in the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.

Currently, the Kupiansk district is home to only 34,500 residents, while 135,000 people used to live in the region before the war. Andriy Kanashevych, the head of the Kupiansk District Military Administration, said this in the National Telethon.

According to him, these are primarily residents of three communities – Velykyi Burluk, Shevchenkove, and Kupiansk. The most populous community is home to about 7,000 people. Before the war, 55,000 people lived in the community.

They are trying to convince the residents of the district to leave. He also added that there was some minor damage in Kupiansk after the liberation, but now the Russian army is destroying the city.

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• Constant missile attacks and deserted streets: how Kupiansk lives on the front line. It is 10-15 km / 6–9 miles from the front line and 40 km / 25 miles from the border with Russia. The city was severely damaged at the beginning of the full-scale invasion and during the battle for its liberation in September 2022.