Russia ordered the evacuation of parts of southern Ukraine on Friday afternoon. This is reported by various news agencies. It is said that about 70,000 people will be resettled. The reason given is the increased shelling of the area by the Ukrainian side.
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the acting governor of the region has ordered the evacuation of 18 settlements in the Zaporizhia region occupied by Russian troops.
“In recent days, the enemy has intensified bombing of places in the immediate vicinity of the front line,” Yevgeny Balitskyi, the Moscow-appointed governor, announced via Telegram. Russia occupies four-fifths of the region.
According to Balitskyj, he had “temporarily” given priority to the evacuation of “children with their parents, the elderly and the disabled and hospital patients”.
70,000 people need to be resettled
They want to remove about 70,000 people from the front and move deeper into the Ukrainian region, TASS said, citing authorities. Balitskyj cited the Ukrainian army as the reason for this, which had intensified artillery fire in recent days.
For weeks, Ukraine has been expected to launch a counter-offensive to recapture other occupied territories. Last fall, the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine fell to Kiev after a Russian retreat. According to experts, the Zaporizhia region is the most likely target for an attack, as the city of Melitopol located there is considered the Achilles heel of Russia’s land connection between the Crimean peninsula and eastern Ukraine.
Source: Krone
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