Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said on August 12 that Ukraine had tried unsuccessfully to strike the Crimean Bridge with S-200 rockets. Local officials reported explosions early on August 12 in the central Ukrainian city of Kryviy Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown, but said that there were no known casualties. Russia has concentrated assault troops supported by tank units, aviation, and artillery in the Kupyansk area, Ukraine National Guard spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk said on Ukrainian TV on August 10. The city of Kupyansk and the territories around it were under Russian occupation until September 2022, when Ukrainian forces conducted a rapid offensive operation that dislodged the Kremlin’s forces from nearly the entire Kharkiv region. Ukraine on August 10 issued a mandatory evacuation of 37 towns and villages in the Kupyansk district in the Kharkiv region amid reports of increased shelling by Russian forces. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war in Ukraine, click here.Įlsewhere, a 73-year-old woman died in an August 12 Russian military strike on a southern district of Kupyansk, Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Synyehubov said. RFE/RL's Live Briefinggives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians.
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