MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops are leaving the outskirts of Kupyansk in the Kharkov Region together with the Kiev-controlled local administration, a representative of Russian defense circles told TASS on Wednesday.

"Accomplices of Neo-Nazis are evacuating together with their families from Kupyansk to Kharkov. The occupation administration and other services are taking away office documentation and archives," he said.

Specifically, the headquarters of the Ukrainian army’s 14th separate motorized infantry brigade has moved to Kharkov. Also, units of the Kraken battalion have left the area, he said.

Another source confirmed this information to TASS.

TASS has no official comments from the Kharkov Region military-civilian administration.

Kiev-appointed First Deputy Head of the Kupyansk district administration Andrey Kanashevich rejected the reports of the evacuation of local officials and organizations, calling them an information attack.