War in Ukraine: kyiv calls on residents of the Donetsk region to evacuate
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 16, 2022 in kyiv.
AP - Ludovic Marin
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called this Saturday, July 30, the inhabitants of the Donetsk region to evacuate to escape the "Russian terror" and the bombardments on this eastern region where kyiv asks the Red Cross and the UN to go to its soldiers prisoners of the Russian forces.
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A government decision has been made on the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk region
," Zelensky said in a video address in the evening.
"
Please evacuate
," he demanded.
"
At this stage of the war, terror is Russia's main weapon
," he stressed.
If you have the opportunity to help people move, do it.
Volodymyr Zelensky calls on civilians to evacuate Donetsk region
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Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk had previously announced the compulsory evacuation for the entire population of Donetsk, one of the two administrative regions of the Donbass industrial basin where Russia is gaining ground.
She had justified this decision, in declarations on television, by the destruction of the gas networks and the absence of heating next winter in the region.
Daily Russian Strikes
Russian strikes on towns in the region cause casualties among the civilian population almost every day.
On Friday, the bombing of a barracks housing Ukrainian soldiers prisoners in Olenivka, in territory occupied by the Russians in the Donetsk region, left around fifty dead.
A
"deliberate Russian war crime"
, according to Mr. Zelensky.
Ukrainian human rights official Dmytro Lubinetsk announced on Saturday July 30 that he had asked the Red Cross and the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission, which had supervised in May the surrender negotiated with the Russians of the defenders of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, in the south-east of Ukraine, to go to Olenivka.
On the ground of military operations, the Ukrainian authorities announced on Saturday that Russian bombardments had targeted several localities in the south and east of the country, killing at least one person in Mykolaiv, in the south, and one in Bakhmout, in the south. 'is.
In Kharkiv, in the northeast, the second Ukrainian city, three S-300 missiles fell on a school which caught fire, announced the town hall.
(
With
AFP)
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