The Kyiv called the inhabitants of eastern Ukraine to evacuate “now” the area, as fears are expressed about a Massive attack by the Russian army in Donbasthe province that is now the main target of the Kremlin.
The regional authorities “are calling on the population to leave these territories and are doing everything possible to ensure that evacuations are carried out in an organized manner,” he said. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Verestsuk.
According to the post of the Ministry of Integration in Telegram, the Verestsuk stressed that the evacuation must be done “now” because otherwise the residents will be in “mortal danger”.
If the Russian army launches a large-scale attack in the region “We can no longer help” residents, he warned “Because it would be practically impossible to stop the fighting.”
“Evacuation must be done as long as this is possible. At the moment, there is still “insisted the Verestsukwhich coordinates the organization of humanitarian corridors since the beginning of the invasion, on 24 February.
The Deputy Prime Minister also considered that the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Kiev region and from the Chernihivlast week “It was not a gesture of goodwill” on the part of Moscow in the context of the peace negotiations but the consequence of “the will of our army, the authorities and the entire Ukrainian people” to repel the Russians.
Russia announced that wants to redeploy its forces to focus its operations on the “liberation” of Donbass, where pro-Russian separatists have been clashing with the Ukrainian army for eight years. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the Russian military was stepping up “to bring the whole of Donbass under its control” and to build “a land bridge with Crimea”, which Russia annexed in 2014. “Most of the Ukrainian forces are concentrated in the area,” he said.
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