“The more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill,” President Zelenskyy says. But many Ukrainians are refusing to leave.
Since the government-mandated evacuations began this week, more than 1,100 people have been moved out of cities and villages of the Donetsk province into mostly central Ukraine, theStill, Ukrainian officials admit that many refuse to leave, despite the warnings and the fact that they now have toThe government issued an order to residents to leave the Donetsk region as they prepare for fall and winter and fear that many there may not have access to heating, electricity, or even clean water.
She’s also wary of signing the form. “First of all I will sit and read it carefully,” Marina, 60, said on the phone from Kramatorsk, where she has lived all her life.Ukraine is eager to get people out of the area to minimize civilian casualties and give it more operational freedom, analysts said. “Ukrainians have also been asking people to evacuate since the very beginning, and the presence of civilians has made the job of the Ukrainian military far more difficult,” Horowitz said.
“When we find violations of international humanitarian law, as we did in this case, we will report them fairly and accurately. Ignoring violations committed by a favoured side would not be meaningful human rights reporting,” it said.
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