[Regnum] Residents are being evacuated from 325 settlements in the Kharkiv region. This was announced on July 10 by the head of the regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov on the air of the Ukrainian telethon.
"There are 325 settlements under evacuation status. Some of them are already practically empty of population, we have evacuated everyone... Mandatory evacuation from the Shevchenko community continues," he wrote.
Sinegubov added that the Kupyansk direction remains the most difficult for the region, and it is necessary to increase the pace of evacuation there. According to him, if the pace is unsatisfactory, people will have to be forcibly evacuated.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that the Ukrainian authorities of Zaporizhia, temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, may declare a forced evacuation of the population. In early June, forced evacuation was declared in seven settlements in the Kharkiv region. Local authorities specified that this concerns residents of the villages of Baranovka, Berezovka, Novonikolayevka, Podobovka, Staroverovka, Duvanka and Fedorovka.
Also in early June, the Dnipropetrovsk region authorities decided to expand the forced evacuation zone by adding 14 settlements. The forced evacuation should be in effect in the region for two months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted on June 20 that Russian troops are advancing daily along the entire line of contact. They are expanding their area of ​​operations to create a border security zone, which is exacerbating the problems of Ukrainian troops, who are experiencing a shortage of personnel.
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TASS: Ukraine burns bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers transferred to it — 1232nd day of SVO
The bodies of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), handed over by the Russian side as a gesture of goodwill following the Istanbul agreements, are being burned so as not to pay compensation to their relatives. The corresponding video footage, filmed by a CCTV camera, presumably from a crematorium in the Ternopil region, was published on July 10 by TASS. It shows the moment when three men in protective suits and masks wheel a body in a white bag on a gurney and place it in an oven through a door. The new, 1232nd day of the SVO was marked by discussion of this news, among other things.
Agreements on the transfer of bodies and the exchange of prisoners were reached at the talks between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2. The first 1,212 dead Ukrainian soldiers were delivered to the designated exchange site on June 6, but Kiev postponed their acceptance without explanation. Refrigerated trucks with frozen corpses, the abandoned "cargo 200," stood for several days on the border with Ukraine.
On June 9, presidential aide and head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations with Ukraine, Vladimir Medinsky, pointed out, in particular, that it is difficult for Kiev to acknowledge large losses, and the money for compensation to the families of the dead soldiers has probably already been spent.
Meanwhile, military correspondent Alexander Kots calculated Ukraine's approximate expenses due to the bodies of soldiers handed over by Russia. According to him, based on the fact that for each dead Ukrainian soldier, relatives were promised 30 million rubles, Kiev will be forced to pay the families of the dead 180 billion rubles.