War in Ukraine: Russia calls for evacuation of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk

THE Russian military leadership calls on international and aid organizations to take initiative to remove civilians from two cities in eastern Ukraine.

“In view of the deteriorating humanitarian situation for most civilians in Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, we call on the international community, the United Nations, the OSCE and the IAEA to take immediate action to ensure the rapid and safe evacuation of all civilians from these cities.” “It’s under the control of the Ukrainian armed forces,” Russian Lt. Gen. Mikhail Mizinchev was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Wednesday afternoon.

Lieutenant General Mizinchev stressed that Ukrainian troops, fortified in Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, are using civilians as human shields..

The senior Russian official also claimed that there were still some 90,000 civilians in the two cities.

These two urban centers are the cornerstones of the Ukrainian army’s lines of defense in Donbassas it is called in the east Ukraine.

The battles are raging in Luhansk

From the above appeal of Russia it is now a given that the second phase of the war in Ukraine is in progress, with the battles raging in the east.

The Ukrainian army’s general staff announced on social media that it had destroyed bridges used by Russian forces to cross rivers in the Luhansk region. He also mentioned that tanks and other tanks were destroyed. In the message he stressed that “Some Russians swam in the Siversky Donetsk River and others; they were burned by the Mayan sun”.

The head of the Luhansk region, Sergiy Haidai, described Bilohorivka as a “fortress” where, as in the case of Mariupol, the Russian army “keeps away”