Ukraine to evacuate all civilians from Donetsk as Russian offensive continues
Russian tanks on the move.
July 31, 2022
The Ukrainian government has ordered a total evacuation of civilians from Donetsk as Russian forces continue pushing for its capture to complete their control over the Donbas region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky in a late-night television address said hundreds of thousands of people are still in combat zones in Donetsk as well as Luhansk, the other half of Donbas already captured by the Russians.
“The more people leave Donetsk now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill,” he said, adding that evacuees would be given compensation.
On the battlefront, Ukrainian military said more than 100 Russian soldiers had been killed and seven tanks destroyed in its counteroffensive in the southern Kherson region.
It also claimed to have cut the rail line to Kherson city over the Dnipro River and isolating Russian forces there.
The Russians have however managed to capture parts of Bakhmut, which is their current prime target in Donetsk.
Meanwhile, Ukraine and Russia have traded accusations over a missile strike on Friday that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the front-line town of Olenivka,.
Russian defence ministry yesterday published a list of 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war killed and 73 wounded in what was said a Ukrainian military strike using a US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (Himars).
It said Russia had invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to probe the deaths in the interests of conducting an objective investigation.
The Ukrainians, however, denied responsibility saying Russian artillery had targeted the prison to hide mistreatment there.
The UN has said it was prepared to send experts to investigate the incident if it obtains consent from both Ukraine and Russia.
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ReplyDeleteWhat would that know-nothing dickhead read anything into this?
The planned counterattack by the nationalist Ukraine to retake Donetsk with the javelin, NLAW, drones & himars, supplied by the West!
How about an reenactment of the withdrawn from the city of Lysychansk to give up the total control of Lugansk Orbitz?
Most of the civilians in Donetsk r Russian speaking & supporting Russia.
The claimed compulsory civilian evacuation is just to hide the movement of the retreating nationalist Ukrainian armies. Bcoz their days r numbered if they continue to stay fighting in Donetsk. Better to redeploy those remaining able bodies to fight to defense western Ukraine!