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It's been an interesting week in the conflict with just the hint that things might be shifting,

both in the diplomatic and domestic

spheres. But before we go into that, let's take a look as ever at events on the ground this week.

Firstly, as Arno de Dekker trailed in our episode last week, Ukrainian authorities have ordered

the evacuation of civilians from around Kupiansk. According to Reuters, the governor of

northeastern Kharkiv region, Ollir Sniehubov, instructed some 409 families with over 600 children

to leave the area, citing the worsening security situation. As Arno told us last week,

drone attacks were already an almost daily occurrence,

but the prospect of direct artillery fire might well have been the final straw.

In Hirsson, meanwhile, far to the south-west, a UN convoy carrying humanitarian aid from the World Food Programme,

was targeted by Russian FPV drones near the town of Biloserka.

A spokesman for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA,

described the attack as utterly unacceptable,

and added that prior to the drone attack,

the convoy had already come under artillery attack

while it was delivering its aid to a settlement which had not seen outside

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