UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, May. 8 — Local authorities plan to declare evacuation from settlements in the northern Bohodukhiv district, said the governor of the Kharkiv oblast Oleh Syniehubov during the meeting with journalists.

The Bohodukhiv district is located west of the Kharkiv oblast and Bohodukhiv, its district center, located 20 kilometers (~12 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border.

This spring, Russians actively started to attack Bohodukhiv and other settlements in the district.

Syniehubov said that the local government does not plan to announce an evacuation in Bohodukhiv itself.

He said that nearly 100 people evacuate from frontline settlements in the Kharkiv oblast every day. In total, more than 500,000 internally displaced people are in the Kharkiv region.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and 17 settlements in the region, injuring 10 people.

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