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Ukraine Kiev and separatists blame each other for bombing Donbas
The separatist leader of the Donetsk People's Republic has announced that he is preparing the mass evacuation of the population to Russia.
Denis Pushilin
said that he will place children, women and the elderly in the neighboring Russian region of Rostov in coordination with what the Russian authorities decide.
Shortly after,
Leonid Pasechnik,
leader of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, also urged the population to evacuate to Russia.
Donetsk separatists accuse Kiev of launching 14 projectiles during the day on Friday.
They fear that Ukrainian President
Volodimir Zelensky
may order an offensive "in the nearest future".
The head of the Donetsk People's Republic has warned that
his military forces are prepared to fight
, but believes civilians in rebel-held areas are at risk of being caught in the crossfire.
Ukrainian Defense Minister
Alexei Reznikov
denied the information and pointed out that Kiev advocates a political and diplomatic solution.
Russia has spent days pointing to attacks on civilian areas
near the front lines and denouncing alleged abuses against the Russian population in Ukraine. The United States believes that this is how Russia is trying to create a "pretext" to invade Ukraine.
For his part, Russian President
Vladimir Putin
stressed that "an escalation is now being observed in Donbas" and urged Kiev to "sit at the negotiating table with the representatives of Donbas [the separatists]" to resolve the conflict.
"The guarantee that peace can be restored comes with the implementation of the Minsk agreements
," the Russian president said.
"All that Kiev needs to do is sit at the negotiating table with Donbas representatives and agree on political, military, economic and humanitarian measures to end this conflict.
The sooner this happens, the better
," Putin said after meeting his counterpart .
Belarusian,
Alexander Lukashenko
.
Moscow continues to see the situation in Donbas as
"very worrying" and potentially "very dangerous,"
Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said today during a meeting with journalists.
Despite its enormous military deployment - which the US estimated today at up to 190,000 Russian individuals or those directed by Moscow, together with Ukraine or in its separatist territories -
Moscow has insisted that it has no intention of attacking its neighbor
.
But on more than one occasion he has pointed out that the only way hostilities could break out is if Kiev tries once again to use military force to retake its breakaway regions.
The evacuation call was issued after OSCE observers - deployed in eastern
Ukraine to monitor the situation along the line dividing the
government-controlled parts of the country and the territories held by Moscow-backed rebels) reported an increase in hostilities this week.
On Thursday, heavy artillery attacks were recorded in the conflict zone.
According to various Russian media, the Ukrainian military fired on several towns and villages in the Russian-backed breakaway region.
They did it with mortars, grenade launchers and rifles.
However, Ukraine reported attacks and even injuries.
In
Stanytsya Luganska
, a town in the Ukrainian-controlled Lugansk Territory, two female kindergarten teachers were injured by artillery.
A school was damaged in another town, although the pro-Russians reported having been attacked first.
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