6:30 a.m.: Eastern Ukraine braces for heavy fighting
Russian forces on Wednesday bombed several localities in eastern Ukraine, including Severodonetsk or Rubizhne, killing at least one person, denounced Wednesday evening the governor of the Luhansk region, still under Ukrainian control, Serguiï Gaïdaï.
"I'm asking people to evacuate, because we clearly see that before going on the all-out offensive, the enemy is just going to completely destroy all these places," he said when interviewed by a television channel. Ukrainian.
“Please go” while there is still time, he insisted.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also appealed from Kyiv on Wednesday for residents of the east of the country to evacuate the region "immediately", due to fears of a major Russian army offensive on Donbass (east). ) which Russia has now made its number one target.
With AFP
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