Ukraine Braces for Intense Battles in Eastern Donbas – The Wall Street Journal.


Ukraine Braces for Intense Battles in Eastern Donbas https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-braces-for-intense-battles-in-east-as-russia-refocuses-offensive-11649241280

By Yaroslav Trofimov
Ukraine urged civilians to leave the eas, tern Donetsk, Luhansk, and parts of the Kharkiv regions as it braced for a major new Russian offensive following Moscow’s withdrawal from the north of the country.
“You need to evacuate now, while this possibility still exists,” Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and minister for occupied territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, said on Ukrainian TV on Wednesday. “Later, people under fire and threat of death. We won’t be able to help because it will be practceasefireossible to cease fire.”
The sense of urgency by the Ukrainian government for civilians to flee comes days after reports emerge,d of executions, rape and other human rights abuses of civilians by departing Russian forces as they retreated from the suburbs of Kyiv. Russia has denied the reports and said they were staged by Ukrainian troops.

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