Kiev is preparing a plan to remove civilians from the area before winter comes due to destruction of most infrastructure
The increase in violence in the Donetsk region has intensified in recent days. The bombings are continuous and indiscriminate, which is why the government of Ukraine has asked the population to leave the area. This Saturday, it was the president of the Russian-invaded country who asked citizens to leave the area as soon as possible. Ukraine also asked the Red Cross and the UN for access to its soldiers detained by Russian forces.
“A government decision has been taken on the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk region,” the Ukrainian president said in his daily speech. “Please evacuate,” added the president, who said Russia’s main weapon today is “terror”. Zelensky did not make up the situation in the area and spoke loudly: “The more people now leave the Donetsk region, the fewer people the Russian army will kill,” he added.
The situation has become so dramatic that the president has not hesitated to encourage neighbors to convince each other. “Convince them to go, especially if they are families with children. If you have the chance to help the displaced, do it,” he urged. Get out of there. We will help you. We are not Russia… because to us every life counts,” the president said.
For all these reasons, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Irina Vereshchuk, announced that the government has started preparations for the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk region before the winter. Little remains of the infrastructure that supplies the region with heating or water, making the chances of survival there increasingly dramatic. To this end, Vereshchuk, also Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, as Ukraine calls the separatist zones of the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Lugansk near Russia, announced the establishment of the General Headquarters for the evacuation.
The deputy prime minister estimates that the mandatory evacuation order could affect between 200,000 and 220,000 residents, currently the epicenter of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces. “There is absolutely no gas supply in the Donetsk region, all gas pipelines that could be repaired have been repaired, but unfortunately the enemy is destroying everything that can warm people in winter time and time again,” Vereshchuk warned. by the Ukrainian agency UNIAN.
The Ukrainian government estimates that at least 52,000 children in the area are at risk of freezing to death during the winter “without heating, light or the ability to warm up,” he added. In addition, the deputy prime minister does not rule out the possibility that the next region to receive the mandatory evacuation order will be Zaporizhzhya, also near the front lines of the fighting, which now has 65% of its gas supply. Before the conflict broke out, nearly two million people lived in Zaporizhzhya, in the south of the country and bordering Donetsk, about 750,000 of whom lived in the capital of the same name.
“MANY PEOPLE REFUSE TO LEAVE BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has begged the people of Donbas to leave the region as combat zones and flee Russian forces.
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Source: La Verdad
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