A car bomb explodes next to the headquarters of the Donetsk Prorrus Government

The separatist leader of the People's Republic of Donetsk (RPD) has announced that it is preparing the massive evacuation of the population to Russia. Denis

A car bomb explodes next to the headquarters of the Donetsk Prorrus Government

The separatist leader of the People's Republic of Donetsk (RPD) has announced that it is preparing the massive evacuation of the population to Russia. Denis Pushilin said he will place in the neighboring Russian region of Rostov to children, women and elders in coordination with what the Russian authorities have. Soon after, Leonid Paschnik, leader of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Lugansk, also urged the population to evacuate to Russia.

Donetsk separatists accuse Kiev from launching 14 projectiles during the day of today Friday. They fear that the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, ordered an offensive "in the nearest future".

While the separatists began to prepare the evacuation, a powerful explosion has been felt in the city of Donetsk. The popular RPD militia confirmed that a car exploded in the parking lot near Donetsk's headquarters.

It was precisely with a bomb as Donetsk's previous separatist chief died. Alexsander Zajarchenko was killed in Donetsk in August 2018 as a result of an attack when a bomb exploded in the cafeteria where he was.

The head of the People's Republic of Donets warned that his military forces are prepared to fight, but believes that civilians in the areas controlled by rebels are at risk of being trapped in cross fire.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Alexei Reznikov denied the information and pointed out that Kiev advocates a political and diplomatic solution. Russia has been marking the attacks in civilian areas near the front and denouncing alleged abuses against Russian population in Ukraine United States believes that this is how Russia is trying to create a "pretext" to invade Ukraine.

For his part, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, stressed that now "an escalation in Donbás" was now observed and urged Kiev to "sit at the negotiating table with the representatives of Donbras [the separatists]" to resolve the conflict. "The guarantee that peace can be restored comes with the implementation of the Minsk agreements," said Russian president. "Everything that Kiev needs to do is sit at the negotiating table with representatives of the DONBAS and agree on political, military, economic and humanitarian measures to end this conflict. The sooner this happens, better," Putin said after meeting with his counterpart. Belarusian, Alexander Lukashenko.

Moscow continues to see the situation in Donbore as "very worrying" and potentially "very dangerous", the Kremlin spokesman said today, Dimitri Peskov, during a meeting with journalists. Despite its enormous military deployment - which the US today encovered up to 190,000 Russian individuals or directed by Moscow, together with Ukraine or in its separatist territories - Moscow has insisted that it does not intend to attack its neighbor. But on more than one occasion he has pointed out that the only way in which hostilities could explode is whether Kiev tries once again to use military force to recover his separatist regions.

The evacuation call was issued after the OSCE observers (deployed in East Ukraine to monitor the situation along the line that divides the country's parts controlled by the government and the territories held by forces Rebels backed by Moscow) will report on an increase in hostilities this week.

United States considers the evacuation of civilians from Donbras to Russia and the recent explosions as a "FaSa Flag" and "disinformation" of Moscow, said State Department spokesman Ned Price, Russian agency Sputnik. "Announcements such as These are new attempts to obstruct through lies and misinformation that Russia is the aggressor in the conflict. This type of operation of 'false flag' is exactly what Secretary Blinken pointed out in his statements to the UN Security Council, "said the spokesman. He also added that it is "cynical and cruel to use human beings as puppet to distract the world of a fact: that Russia is expanding its forces in preparation for an attack. Russia is the only instigator of these tensions and is threatening the people of Ukraine", He added. The Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov confirmed the provision of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to meet once the United States examines Russia's response to security proposals. Switzerland is willing to accommodate the meeting.

Thursday were strong artillery attacks in the conflict area. According to several Russian media, Ukrainian military shot against several villages and villages of the separatist region backed by Russia. They did it with mortars, launches and rifles. However, Ukraine denounced attacks and even injured. In Stanytsya Luganska, a town located in the territory of Lugansk controlled by Ukraine, the artillery wounded two teachers of a nursery. A school was damaged in another population, although the prorruses denounced to have been attacked first.

Date Of Update: 19 February 2022, 01:17