“Phoenix subscribers began to receive messages that Russia would not let people in without Russian passports, which is fake,” he said.

According to him, the day before there were "regular calls to schools and other institutions about mining."

“Plus, there are regular shellings.

There were serious shellings this morning, yesterday," Bezsonov said.

Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, in an address to the residents of the republic, said that in connection with the dangerous situation in the Donbass, the departure of the population to Russia had been organized since February 18.