Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy says the United Nations and Red Cross have a duty to react after Russia's strike on a centre housing prisoners of war in Eastern Ukraine's Donetsk province.
Thomson ReutersSmoke rises over the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk following recent shelling on June 18. Kyiv has decided on a mandatory evacuation of people in the region around the city, where Ukraine is engaged in fierce fighting with Russian forces.
Separately, domestic Ukrainian media outlets quoted Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk as saying the evacuation needed to take place before winter begins since the region's natural gas supplies had been destroyed. "He established himself on the outskirts of the settlement," the military's evening report said, referring to Russian forces.
Just to the north of Lysychansk, which Moscow's forces captured in early July after weeks of fighting, Ukrainian partisans destroyed a railway junction box near the Russian-controlled town of Svatove on Friday night, making it harder for Moscow to transport ammunition to the front lines by train, Luhansk regional Gov. Serhiy Gaidai said in an online post.
Ministry spokesperson Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said "all political, criminal and moral responsibility" rested with Zelenskyy, "his criminal regime and Washington who supports them."
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