Zelensky urges Ukrainians to evacuate Donetsk region

by time news

The government of Ukraine has decided the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk regioneast of the country, which in recent days has been the subject of heavy military strikes of the armed conflict.

In a speech broadcast Saturday night on the presidential Telegram channel, Zelensky asked the inhabitants who have not yet done so to make your own decision to evacuate Donetsk and assured them that they would have full logistical and financial assistance.

“Trust me. The sooner they do it, the more people leave the Donetsk region now, The less time the Russian army will have to kill people.”he stressed, after admitting that there were still “hundreds of thousands of people, tens of thousands of children, many of whom refuse to leave.”

Zelensky repeated the recognition that several countries have made of Russia as a terrorist stateespecially the US, “more as an effective defense of the free world than as a political gesture.”

Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk military administration, reported this Saturday that over the last month a total of 662 people have died in the region as a result of Russian attacks and that another 1,711 were wounded.

kyiv has reported the murder in an attack of 50 Ukrainian prisoners in a prison of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk located in the town of Yelenovka (also known as Olenivka, in Ukrainian), while Moscow categorically denies it and blames Ukraine for the attack.

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