Thousands of people are trying to board a train at Kramatorsk station in the Donbas region to flee the Russian offensive. Photo: AFP
Thousands of people They were trying to flee this Wednesday from the eastern Donbas region, in a war-torn Ukraine, ahead of Russia’s expected offensive, which is expected, according to NATO sources, “horrible and barbaric”.
To allow people to escape as soon as possible they opened this Wednesday five humanitarian corridors. The idea is to move people in parts of the Luhansk region away from the front line.
Ukrainian officials called on people in the area “take advantage of this opportunity” to flee “while it is safe”.
A woman cries while leaving the Donbas region. Photo: AFP
Russian forces are trying to surround the Ukrainians to control all of the Donbas, which consists of regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Guilt will come
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes it will take a few weeks before Russia was ready to launch its next major offensive in the Donbas.
A man crosses a destroyed bridge at Bohorodychne in the Donbas. Photo: AFP
troops and equipment they just leave around kyiv (where they left traces of destroyed towns along with their massacred populations) and it will take time to re-supply and move east.
As the BBC reported on Wednesday, other forces are being added to Russian troops, including foreign warriors, mercenaries and conscripts (even when Putin promised that conscripts would not go to the front).
When the offensive arrives, NATO officials warn of it it would be “horrible and barbaric”.
They believe Putin wants to testify some kind of successhowever limited, before May 9, when Russia held its annual parade Victory daywhich marked the defeat of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II.
They are famous every year, military parade in Moscow.
NATO members, who meet on Wednesday, are determined to use the coming days and weeks to ensure that Ukraine be as prepared as possible and deny the Kremlin any reason to celebrate.
They are famous every year, the military parades in Moscow. Photo: AFP
a new exodus
Russian forces continue pumping cities in eastern and southern Ukraine and attacking targets elsewhere using missiles. Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkov, underwent intense shelling overnight on Tuesday.
There was also more artillery strikes in parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, where fighting is expected to intensify in the coming weeks, as Russia reunites its forces.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia attacked Ukrainian army positions and civilian infrastructure in Borivske, Novoluhanske, Solodke, Marinka and Zolota Nyva, in the eastern regions of Lugansk and Donetsk.
Thousands of people are trying to flee the region as Russia shifts the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine. Photo: AFP
Thousands of people trying to flee from the region as Russia shifts the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine.
Families have been queuing at Kramatorsk central station for days and some have said goodbye to loved ones left behind.
The deputy prime minister of Ukraine said he intended to open 11 humanitarian corridors throughout Wednesday to assist in the evacuation of civilians, Reuters reported, quoted by the BBC.
The families fled to the Donbas region. Photo: AFP
Five of these corridors were to bring people to safety from the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine before Russia’s expected offensive.
The corridors will take civilians west from Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna, Rubizhne and Hirske towards the city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian news site Ukrinform said.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on her Telegram channel that 3,846 people were evacuated on Tuesdayincluding 1,080 people from the Luhansk region.
Mariupol
Russian forces also continued their offensive against Mariupol, the martyr city, which was relentlessly blocked and shot at. more than a month.
The latest intelligence update from the UK Ministry of Defense revealed the humanitarian situation in the city is “getting worse” when it seems impossible that there is any margin for further deterioration. 90% of the city was destroyed, according to its mayor.
Mariupol residents hope to receive humanitarian aid. Photo: Reuters
According to the UK Ministry of Defense, “most of the city’s 160,000 residents have no electricity, communication, medicine, heating or water. Russian forces prevented humanitarian accesswhich is likely to put pressure on defenders to give up. “
Elsewhere, Russia broke an oil deposit near the city of Dnipro and hit targets in the Vinnytsia region in central Ukraine and Radekhiv in the west.
Russian air strikes destroyed an oil depot in the Dnipro.
Clarín newsroom with information from agencies and BBC News
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Source: Clarin