China News Agency, Moscow, February 19 (Reporter Tian Bing) Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov said on the 18th that Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Acting Minister of Emergency Situations to rush to Rostov Oblast on the same day to provide material security for receiving people in eastern Ukraine .
The special representative of the OSCE contact group in Ukraine said that the emergency meeting of the tripartite contact group in Donbas will discuss the local situation on the 19th.
Luhansk said on the 19th that 25,000 people have entered Russia; Donetsk said that more than 6,600 people have been evacuated.
Russian media quoted Peskov as saying that Putin on the 18th instructed Russia’s Acting Minister of Emergency Situations, Chupriyan, to fly to Rostov Oblast in an emergency to organize work on the spot and provide accommodation and food for the evacuated eastern Ukrainian people. and all necessary conditions including medical treatment.
In addition, 10,000 rubles will be distributed to every eastern Ukrainian who enters the Rostov region.
On the 18th, the leaders of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" controlled by the civil armed forces in eastern Ukraine announced that in view of the escalation of conflicts near the contact line, there is a possible risk of war, and they will start to organize large-scale transfer of people immediately. to the territory of Russia, and expressed that Russia is willing to accept the evacuated residents.
The local area began to set up meeting points and configure corresponding means of transportation to evacuate residents to the territory of Russia.
Golubev, the governor of Russia's Rostov state, which borders eastern Ukraine, made a request to Putin for emergency assistance to the state on the 18th.
Some other regions of Russia have announced that they are ready to receive the evacuated eastern Ukrainian people there.
On the morning of the 17th, tensions in eastern Ukraine escalated.
The Ukrainian military and the civilian armed forces in eastern Ukrainian accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement and carrying out shelling, which damaged a large amount of civilian infrastructure.
According to RIA Novosti, a car exploded in the parking lot of a government building in central Donetsk on the 18th.
Ukraine said it had not carried out military operations in the east of the country.
Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny said the Ukrainian side "didn't even consider the use of force".
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba stressed that Ukraine is fully committed to solving the problem through diplomacy and dialogue.
The Russian Satellite News Agency reported on the 18th that the rotating chairman of the OSCE in Ukraine and the special representative of the contact group Jinnunan said through social media that the emergency meeting of the Donbas tripartite contact group will be held on the 19th, and the security situation in the region is very disturbing. worry.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Interim Minister of Integration Affairs of the Occupied Territories Vereshuk said that Kiev is ready to take all necessary measures to restore the ceasefire in Donbass, demanded to strengthen the independent monitoring and verification work of the OSCE in Donbass, and hoped to hold tripartite contacts group meeting.
Earlier, Russian media reported that the eastern Ukrainian civilian armed forces said that Kiev's call for a special meeting of the security working group of the tripartite contact group had no actual proposal to support, so it was meaningless and refused to participate in the meeting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed regret at the deteriorating situation in eastern Ukraine at a joint press conference after talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on the 18th.
He stressed that the key to restoring peace and reducing tensions in Ukraine is the implementation of the Minsk agreement.
"All Kiev needs to do is sit at the negotiating table with representatives of the Donbas region (in eastern Ukraine) and agree on political, military, economic and humanitarian measures to end the conflict." (End)