The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said that the Izyum direction remains the hottest spot.
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On May 14, the Ukrainian military shot down a plane over the temporarily occupied territory of the Kharkiv region.
Russian troops are constantly trying to attack the liberated settlements.
" Therefore, we carry out the evacuation in small columns and orient people already on the spot, without announcing this in advance,"
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The Institute for the Study of War reports that the Russian military probably decided to leave their positions around Kharkov, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces prevented them from cordoning off the city.. ISW predicts that now the invaders will try to hold the line west of Volnovakha.
Their goal in this is to protect their land lines from Belgorod to Izyum..