Ukrainian president says ‘the more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill’
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged civilians to evacuate the frontline Donetsk region, the scene of fierce clashes with the Russian military, as Kyiv called on the Red Cross and UN to gain access to its soldiers being held by Moscow’s forces.
Ukraine’s president warned in his daily address that hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children, were still in the region’s battleground areas, with the Donetsk governor saying six civilians were killed and 15 wounded on Friday.
Russian gas producer Gazprom said on Saturday it had stopped sending gas to Latvia after accusing it of violating supply conditions with providing further details. The Baltic country said the move would have little impact on its gas supplies.
Ukrainian forces set fire to grain fields around Mariupol so they could not be “stolen by the occupiers”, Sergiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odesa regional military administration said.
Russian bombardments targeted the south and east on Saturday, killing one in southern Mykolaiv and another in eastern Bakhmut. The death toll from a strike on a Mykolaiv bus stop on Friday climbed to seven after two men died in hospital. In the eastern city of Kharkiv, three Russian S-300 missiles struck a school, mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram, adding that the main building was destroyed. Continue reading...
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