The government of Ukraine has decided on the compulsory evacuation of the region of Donetskeast of the country, which in recent days has been the object of harsh military attacks of the armed conflict.
This was announced by the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenskiin a speech broadcast on Saturday night on the presidential Telegram channel, in which he asked the inhabitants who have not yet done so to make the decision for themselves to leave Donetsk.
Likewise, he assured them that they would have complete logistical and economic assistance, following they leave this region recognized as independent by Russia.
“Trust me. The sooner they do it, the more people leave the region of Donetsk now, the Russian army will have less time to kill people,” he stressed, following admitting that there were still “hundreds of thousands of people, tens of thousands of children, many of whom refuse to leave.”
Russian offensive in Donetsk
The president repeated the acknowledgment that several countries have made of Russia as a terrorist state, especially EU“more as an effective defense of the free world than as a political gesture”.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the military administration of Donetskreported 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 injured.
Kiev 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 He categorically denies this and blames Ukraine for the attack.
More than 70,000 casualties due to conflict, according to the US.
The Government and the Armed Forces of USA estimate that Russia It has some 75,000 dead and wounded since it began its invasion of Ukraine last February, as published on Wednesday by The New York Times.
According to information from this medium, which cites as a source a legislator who has held talks with government representatives, the casualties represent half of the 150,000 troops that Russia came to have deployed in Ukraine this spring.
The figure of 75,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded was mentioned in a joint and private meeting of the State Department, the Department of Defense, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
(With information from EFE)