While Russian forces remain in full control of the Borivs’kyi district in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Moscow forces are “gradually withdrawing” from the area toward the Donetsk region, Borova’s village council said in a statement on Sunday. statement on Telegram.
“There is no mobile connection and no internet, which are impossible to restore because the area is occupied by the Russians,” it said, adding that “some places are without electricity and gas.”
According to the statement, Russian troops are housed in the buildings of the village council, the Palace of Culture, hospitals, in the homes of some citizens. “Occupying authorities” in the area have been appointed from local staff, who will now coordinate administrative activities in the community.
The council said some parts of the community suffered significant damage and were unable to contact the psychoneurological boarding school in the area, which housed about 200 patients.
Due to the lack of communication, the municipality has not been able to identify the people taken to the hospital from the bus that was attacked by Russian troops on Friday.
The issue of supplying medicines to a hospital in the village of Borova, including anesthesia, and humanitarian aid to the population in the form of food, hygiene products and basic necessities is acute, the council said.
Appeals have been made to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, who is also Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, and the Head of Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Synegubov, to organize humanitarian corridors for evacuation and relief efforts in the area, the statement said.