"Despite active fighting, the police are still taking out people who live some 300, 500 metres from the contact line," says Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of police in the Kharkiv region. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated from border areas in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, the local governor said on Sunday, following a surprise cross-border Russian offensive there that began on Friday. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES