A soldier-volunteer holding a cat in his arms. On 10th September 2023, the Ukrainian authorities announced the obligatory evacuation of settlements in the area of Kupiansk, on the east bank of the river Oskol — including parts of Kupiansk itself. Less than a year after being liberated by the Ukrainian army, the town and its suburbs, being an important railway and road junction connected directly to Russia itself, again became an important military objective, endangered by the Russian offensive.

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