The situation in eastern Ukraine is apparently coming to a head – the authorities are calling on people to leave the region – also with a view to winter. Meanwhile, one of the richest men in the country was also killed. The situation at a glance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked residents of the Donetsk region to leave the region in eastern Ukraine. “Please evacuate,” he said in a video speech on Saturday night, referring to the Russian attacks. Ukraine, meanwhile, has denied Russian allegations that a drone attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet General Staff in Crimea injured six people. New, heavy attacks were also reported from southern Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns of “terror”
The more people are now leaving the fiercely contested Donetsk region, the fewer the Russian army will kill, President Zelenskyj said. “At this stage of the war, terror is one of Russia’s main weapons,” he warned. The authorities would help with the evacuation, he promised.
Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk had previously announced the mandatory evacuation of the entire population of the Donetsk region. The residents have to get to safety before the heating season because the gas networks are destroyed, she said on Ukrainian television. At the moment the Russian army is trying to take over all of eastern Ukraine, especially the Donetsk region.
Ukraine, meanwhile, denied attacking the Russian Black Sea Fleet General Staff in Sevastopol on Sunday morning. The Russian allegations are “a deliberate provocation,” said a spokesman for the Odessa regional administration in a video published on Telegram. “The liberation of occupied Ukrainian Crimea will be done in a different, much more effective way.”
Russia continues to attack southern Ukraine
The governor of the peninsula annexed by Russia, Mikhail Rasvoschyev, had previously said six people had been injured in a drone attack on the naval headquarters in Sevastopol. Rasvoschyev blamed it on “Ukrainian nationalists” who wanted Russia to “spoil the day of the Russian fleet.”
Violent attacks were also reported from southern Ukraine. The city of Mykolayiv came under “massive” and “probably stronger than ever” shelling on Sunday morning, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said in the online service Telegram. A number of residential buildings were damaged and several fires broke out.
Two men died in Mykolayiv hospital after an attack on a bus stop on Friday. The death toll from this attack rose to seven.
Grain entrepreneur killed
The owner of one of Ukraine’s largest grain trading companies was also killed there by Russian shelling. “Last night the Hero of Ukraine and general director of Nibulon Oleksiy Vadatursky and his wife Rajissa died tragically as a result of shelling,” oblast governor Vitaly Kim wrote to the Telegram news service on Sunday.
Vadaturskyj was 74 years old. His fortune was recently estimated at the equivalent of over 400 million euros.
The mayor of the city, Olexander Zenkewytsch, described the nightly shelling on Telegram as “probably the strongest of all time” since the outbreak of war. Three other civilians were injured. About half of the once almost 500,000 inhabitants are said to be staying in the shipbuilding town.
The southern regional capital had been attacked almost daily in the past few weeks. The Ukrainian army recently launched a counter-offensive in the neighboring region of Cherson, which had been conquered by Russia.
UN and Red Cross to protect prisoners of war
Other Ukrainian cities in the south, east and north-east of the country, such as Kharkiv and Sloviansk, were also shelled over the weekend. A representative of the north-eastern Sumy region reported that about 50 rocket attacks on Saturday evening killed one person and wounded two.
After the attack on a prison in eastern Ukraine that killed dozens, Ukraine asked the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to monitor the situation. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had appealed to both organizations to protect “the lives of hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war”. According to Ukrainian sources, Russia is responsible for the attack, but Moscow denies it.
The Olenivka detention center in pro-Russian separatist-held eastern Ukraine was home to many fighters from Ukraine’s Azov regiment, which surrendered to Russian forces in May. According to Selenskyj, more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the attack on Friday, Moscow spoke of 50 dead and 73 seriously injured on Saturday.
Source: Stern
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