Bucha Cemetery, one of the cities hardest hit by Russian troops. /
The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Irina Vereshchuk, on Wednesday asked the residents of Lugansk, Donetsk and Kharkov to leave these places due to the possibility of a new Russian offensive after being expelled from kyiv and Chernigov. “It is necessary because the population will be under fire and death threats. They won’t be able to do anything and we won’t be able to help because it will be almost impossible to stop the fire. It is necessary to evacuate while there is such a possibility,” Vereshchuk said in a statement.
Vereshchuk explained that the Ukrainian military forces deployed in these regions have begun to sound the alert to residents and wanted to reassure the population that the government “is doing everything possible to ensure that the evacuation is organized.” In this sense, he has warned the population that “they must be prepared” for a new escalation of hostilities by Russia.
“The withdrawal of the occupying troops from the kyiv and Chernigov regions was not a gesture of goodwill before the next round of talks, as Russian officials try to present”, but a sign “of the iron will of our Army, Government and all the Ukrainian people”, he emphasized.
This Wednesday the opening of eleven new humanitarian corridors was also known, several of them from the city of Mariupol to Zaporizhia and also from Berdyansk to Zaporizhia, from where buses will be chartered to leave the region, reports Ukrinform.