KYIV: Ukrainian authorities have begun mass evacuations of communities in the country’s northern Sumy region close to the Russian border after extended periods of intense shelling of the area, local officials said on Friday.
The military administration of Sumy region, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said more than 180 residents of areas near the Velikopysarska community, next to the border, had been evacuated over the past three days.
Authorities in Sumy have long been issuing daily reports of Russian shelling, but the attacks have intensified.
Mass evacuation in Ukraine’s north amid intense Russian bombardment
