Residents flee Ukraine's Kupiansk as Russia presses down on northeast hub


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  • Friday, 18 Oct 2024

Kupiansk residents, who fled due to Russian military strikes, arrive to an evacuation centre, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 17, 2024. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy

KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Yuliia Baibak could not bear another Russian air strike on her neighbourhood before evacuating her parents from the besieged Ukrainian city of Kupiansk.

"I came (to my parents) all white, crying and scared, and said, 'Either we leave or they'll kill us all here,'" she said on Thursday while helping her wheelchair-bound mother to a car.

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