While Russian forces still fully control the Borivs’kyi district in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Moscow’s troops are “gradually” withdrawing from the area towards the Donetsk region, the Borova village council said in a statement on Telegram on Sunday.
“There is no cell phone connection and no internet, which is impossible to restore as the area is occupied by the Russians,” it said, adding that “some places remain without electricity and gas.”
According to the statement, Russian troops are housed in the village council buildings, the Palace of Culture, in hospitals and in the homes of some civilians. “occupation authorities” in the area were appointed from among the local staff who will now coordinate administrative activities in the community.
The council said there was significant damage to some parts of the community and that it was unable to make contact with the area’s psychoneurological boarding school, which was housing about 200 patients.
Due to the lack of communication, the council was unable to identify the people who were taken to hospital from the bus that was attacked by Russian forces 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 were 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 the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Synegubov, to organize humanitarian corridors for evacuation and delivery of relief supplies the area, the statement said.