London: 1,200 citizens can be held in shelters azoto A Russian-backed separatist said the chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city where one of the fiercest battles of the war broke out between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
Russian army trying to crush Ukrainian resistance in eastern city svierodonetskThe move is part of a broader push to pull Kyiv’s forces out of the two separatist regions, which Russia supports and recognizes as independent states.
Russia said on Wednesday that it human corridor From the huge ammonia factory established under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, to a separatist-controlled city.
Rodion Miroshnik, an official of the Russian-backed self-styled separatist administration of the Luhansk People’s Republic, said on Telegram: “About 1,000 to 1,200 citizens of Svyarodonetsk may still be on the territory of the Azot chemical plant.”
Miroshnik said civilians were at the part of the plant that is still controlled by Ukrainian forces, which he said numbered 2,000 people, including Ukrainian and foreign fighters.
Russia on Tuesday said it rejected a Ukrainian request for a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the plant to Kyiv-controlled territory, citing the destruction of the final bridge over the Siversky Donets River that blocked the city’s eastern exit .
“We offer nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries based at the Azot plant to end any hostilities,” Ministry of Defence Told.
Russia’s defense ministry said Ukraine’s “militants” had intentionally taken civilians to the Azot plant and were using them as human shields.
Reuters was unable to verify that claim. Ukraine has denied Russian claims that it uses civilians as human shields.
The Defense Ministry said Russia’s humanitarian corridor north of the city of Svatov would remain open until Wednesday evening.
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that the main immediate cause of what he described as a “special military operation” was to protect the Russian-speaking Donbass from persecution and attack by Ukraine.
Ukraine and its Western supporters say Russia is waging an unprovoked war against a sovereign state fighting for its existence. Kyiv maintains that Russia’s claim of persecution of Russian-speakers is a baseless excuse for aggression.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine began after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, with Russian-backed forces fighting Ukraine’s armed forces. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, between 2014 and 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, about 14,000 people were killed there.
Russian army trying to crush Ukrainian resistance in eastern city svierodonetskThe move is part of a broader push to pull Kyiv’s forces out of the two separatist regions, which Russia supports and recognizes as independent states.
Russia said on Wednesday that it human corridor From the huge ammonia factory established under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, to a separatist-controlled city.
Rodion Miroshnik, an official of the Russian-backed self-styled separatist administration of the Luhansk People’s Republic, said on Telegram: “About 1,000 to 1,200 citizens of Svyarodonetsk may still be on the territory of the Azot chemical plant.”
Miroshnik said civilians were at the part of the plant that is still controlled by Ukrainian forces, which he said numbered 2,000 people, including Ukrainian and foreign fighters.
Russia on Tuesday said it rejected a Ukrainian request for a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the plant to Kyiv-controlled territory, citing the destruction of the final bridge over the Siversky Donets River that blocked the city’s eastern exit .
“We offer nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries based at the Azot plant to end any hostilities,” Ministry of Defence Told.
Russia’s defense ministry said Ukraine’s “militants” had intentionally taken civilians to the Azot plant and were using them as human shields.
Reuters was unable to verify that claim. Ukraine has denied Russian claims that it uses civilians as human shields.
The Defense Ministry said Russia’s humanitarian corridor north of the city of Svatov would remain open until Wednesday evening.
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that the main immediate cause of what he described as a “special military operation” was to protect the Russian-speaking Donbass from persecution and attack by Ukraine.
Ukraine and its Western supporters say Russia is waging an unprovoked war against a sovereign state fighting for its existence. Kyiv maintains that Russia’s claim of persecution of Russian-speakers is a baseless excuse for aggression.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine began after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, with Russian-backed forces fighting Ukraine’s armed forces. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, between 2014 and 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, about 14,000 people were killed there.