Police spokesman of the Luhansk People’s Republic Ivan Filipunenko confirmed that “Ukraine carried out intense artillery shelling of Luhansk police positions.”
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Ukrainian forces launched artillery shelling on the territory of Luhansk
“Ukrainian forces launched artillery bombardment on Luhansk lands along the line of contact, with the belief that the Ukrainian army is preparing to attack,” said Ivan Filipunenko, a police spokesman for the Luhansk People’s Republic in the Donbass region.
“As we expected, following the preparations made by the enemy, he carried out a number of aggressive actions once morest the Luhansk People’s Republic,” said Fliponenko.
He added that “the enemy made preparations along the line of contact to carry out possible offensive operations, accompanied by intense artillery bombardment on Luhansk police positions and civilian areas on the line of contact as well as in the depth.”
“Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian forces have bombed more than 20 residential points in Luhansk,” Fiboninenko said, adding that “the situation on the contact line in Donbass has deteriorated sharply in the last hours.”
In this context, a delegate fields To Donetsk Province, “Tensions have risen in the past hours in the Donbass region,” noting that “the attempted Ukrainian attack on Luhansk Province is a sabotage attempt, as described by the provincial government.”
Our delegate pointed out that the Ukrainian bombardment targeted “towns on the border of the line of contact between the Donetsk region and Ukraine, that is, within the areas controlled by the Ukrainian army.”
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He added that “there were observers from the Organization of European Cooperation who inspected the location of the shells in those towns and prepared a report on the matter.”
He also pointed to the displacement situation that prevailed in the boycott, stating that “there are people who started buying weapons, following Zelensky’s speech in Munich which led to an escalation of the escalation.
30 Russian regions declare their readiness to receive refugees from Donbass
In this context, the Russian Emergencies Ministry announced, today, Sunday, the preparation of 250 temporary residence points, with a capacity to accommodate more than 28 thousand people, to receive refugees from Donbass.
“Currently, 30 regions in Russia have declared their readiness to receive refugees,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that “there are 255 temporary residence points capable of accommodating more than 28 thousand people, ready to receive refugees from Donbass.”
Earlier today, Acting Russian Emergencies Minister Alexander Choprian said that more than 40,000 refugees from Donbass have already arrived in Russia.
“Information is that more than 40,000 people were forced to leave the neighboring regions of Ukraine and reached the Russian territory, and now they are mainly in the Rostov region,” Choprian told reporters.
It is noteworthy that the Russian Emergencies Ministry has assigned a group of psychologists to help refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk republics in the Russian city of Rostov.
The ministry stated that “psychological service specialists provide all the necessary assistance and support to the evacuees from Donetsk and Lugansk.”
The first train carrying refugees from Donbass arrives in the Volgograd region of Russia
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The first train carrying 443 Donbass refugees arrived in the Volgograd region
Simultaneously, today, Sunday, the first train carrying 443 Donbass refugees arrived in the Volgograd region, southwest Russia.
“Today, the first train with refugees from Donbass arrived in the Volgograd region,” the press service of the South-West Regional Administration of Russia said, adding that “443 people are being transferred to temporary shelters, and places have been prepared in accordance with the tasks set by the governor.”
The press service stated that “among 443 refugees, there are 166 children under the age of 14, including 9 children under the age of one year.”
On Saturday, the authorities of the Lugansk People’s Republic announced, More than 16,000 people were evacuated to RussiaIn light of the deteriorating situation in the region, once morest the backdrop of tension with Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin assured his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron thatKiev strongly refuses to implement the Minsk agreements“The provocations of the Ukrainian military are the cause of the escalation in Donbass,” he said.
Putin also drew Macron’s attention to “the supply of arms by NATO to Ukraine is pushing it to solve the crisis in Donbass militarily.”
