In a context in which Joe Biden has argued that Vladimir Putin and Russia will invade Ukrainethe Kremlin has confirmed that the Russian president will speak by telephone this Sunday with Emmanuel Macronavoiding this time an image like the one they gave us in their last meeting, with both leaders separated by a four-meter table.
Meanwhile, this Saturday the authorities of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk have announced the general state of mobilization which imposes the activation of all reservists and the transformation of the economy with a view to a armed conflict.
“I urge my compatriots who are in the reserves to go to the offices of military registration and enlistment“, said the leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, in a recorded statement.
The tension of recent months due to the accumulation of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine, added to the consequent intensification of NATO operations, have once again overwhelmed the conflict in the east of the country, which confronts the Kiev authorities with these two separatist zones, related to Russia.
“I make an appeal“, Pushilin has added to all the men of the republic who can bear arms so that they defend their families, their children, their wives and their mothers. Together we will achieve the victory that we all want and need,” according to a recording collected by the official Russian news agency Sputnik. The leader of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (PLR), Leonid Pásechnik, has also signed this decree.
These declarations take place after both territories declared on Friday the evacuation of their citizens to the Russian region of Rostov. Some 35,000 residents of Lugansk They have already started moving there, according to the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Yevgeny Katzavalov, while his counterpart from Donetsk, Alexei Kostrubizki, estimates that the authorities of the region 6,603 people have already been evacuated to Russiaincluding 2,436 children.
Meanwhile, in Rostov, six trains of ten wagons each have already been launched to evacuate civilians from the region, according to sources from the Russian Emergency services to the TASS agency.
These mobilizations take place after the situation on the line of contact in eastern Ukraine — the front line between the Ukrainian army and the separatists — escalated on Thursday morning, culminating in a succession of ceasefire violations. unprecedented in force in recent months.
Specifically, there have been 222 ceasefire violations in the zone of Donetskof which 135 have been explosions, while in LuganskThey have registered 648 violationsof which 519 have been explosions, as explained by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in a report.
These figures reflect a significant increase in armed violence in eastern Ukraine, as pointed out by the organization, which has reiterated “the need” to refrain from the use of force and to de-escalate an “already tense” situation.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, for its part, has denied that it is preparing an armed offensive in donbas, the region in eastern Ukraine where the two self-proclaimed republics are located. “The claims that the Ukrainian government intends to launch an offensive operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk territories they are far from reality“, He has made known in a note issued this Friday.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine report a deceased
The Armed Forces of Ukraine They reported this Saturday the death of one of its troops during a new series of clashes on the contact line in the east of the country against troops from the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
The Ukrainian Army has denounced that the soldier has died as a result of a bombardment carried out with heavy artillery around 09:00 in the morning, local time.
The deceased, unidentified, succumbed to a shrapnel woundaccording to the note, published by the Ukrinform portal.
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine express their deepest and most sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased,” according to the statement, which did not provide further details at this time.
In the last few hours, Ukraine has denounced the deployment of 122mm caliber artillery, 120mm caliber mortars and grenade launchers and heavy machine guns in multiple towns in Donetsk and Lugansk, contrary to the regulations of the Minsk agreements that regulated the, until now, precarious ceasefire in the region.
Source: Lasexta
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