Go to media bankEvacuation of the population from Kharkiv region. Archival photoLOGACHEVKA (Belgorod region), 11 Sep. Oksana Kryuchkova, a refugee from Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, told RIA Novosti how she was evacuated to Russia with two children. Earlier, the head of the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, said that the authorities had begun evacuating the population from Kupyansk, Izyum, Shevchenkovo and Balakleya, he urged residents to leave their homes in the zone military operations. On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that troops from Balakleya and Izyum had been regrouped to the Donetsk direction to achieve the stated goals of a special military operation to liberate Donbass.Gladkov spoke about those wishing to cross the border of the Kharkov region with Russia. According to Kryuchkova, she worked in Kupyansk on the railway, she has a husband and two children. When the shelling of the city began, the woman said, Ukrainian television was told that the residents were not afraid of what was happening, the military would deliver pinpoint strikes. But, according to her, the shelling was powerful. «The Russian guys told my husband that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were in the city, quickly rake up your family and run. They raked the kids into the car and drove off. and everything was whistling above us. When we passed the checkpoints in the region, I liked that the Russian soldiers met us and smiled. They saw that we were with the children, smiled and said: let them through, they are coming. It was so touching,» Kryuchkova said. 
Gladkov and Turchak inspected checkpoints in the Belgorod region. the child had a stomach ache, a doctor was called. The children were given juices and sweets with them. For the first time, I felt that someone needed us. Then I waited for my husband here, they gave us beds, things for the children, «the woman said.
