This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach, and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday, 10 August, these are our main stories.

Ukraine has told vulnerable people in an area close to Russian front lines to leave immediately

because of an increase in Russian attacks.

The leaders of the Kuwaiti Niger are announcing new government as West African countries consider military intervention.

And an Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated just two weeks before the polls open.

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While people in Russia say they're living in fear as former Wagner troops return home.

The Ukrainian authorities have issued a mandatory evacuation order around the city of Kupiansk and surrounding areas in the Harkiv region,

due to what they say is intense Russian shelling.

Earlier, a Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konochenkov claimed success is in the region.

In the Kupiansk region, assault troops have made advances along the front line during offensive operations.

During the day, counter-attacked by the armed forces of Ukraine were successfully repelled in the Lugansk People's Republic and in the Harkiv region.

Ukraine's military said the situation around Kupiansk was difficult to put under control.

Kupiansk was one of several cities and towns in Ukraine recaptured last September.

In recent weeks, Russia has been trying to take the cities and towns again.

Our correspondent, Huga Bachega, is just back from Ukraine and told me more.

It's interesting because over the last few weeks and months we've been talking about the counter-offensive in the east of the country, in Donetsk,

also in the Zaporizha region of Ukraine, but this is happening in the northeast of the country.

So perhaps far away from those areas where the Ukrainians are trying to make some gains,

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