During the evacuation of civilians from the central part of Kupiansk, it became known that two civilians had been killed by Russian troops. This was reported by Andriy Kanashevych, head of the Kupiansk District Military Administration.
According to him, on 13 December, the Ukrainian defence forces of the Kupiansk tactical group, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, evacuated nine more residents of the community from the central part of the city to the regional centre. All evacuees are receiving the necessary first aid.
During the interview, one of the evacuees reported that occupation troops shot two residents of Kupiansk in a multi-storey building on Stadionna Square. The victims were a man born in 1981 and an unidentified elderly woman.