Ukraine: Zelensky Calls for Evacuation from Donetsk Region in Face of Russian 'Terror' | War in Ukraine

The scenes of destruction are numerous in Donetsk and the citizens try despite everything to live their life there.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday evening called on the population to evacuate the Donetsk region in the east of the country, whose cities are the target of deadly bombardments, to escape to “Russian terror”.

A government decision has been made on the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk region, the President of Ukraine said. Please evacuate, he added in a video address.

At this stage of the war, terror is Russia's main weapon, he underlined, while the Russian strikes on the cities of the region make victims almost every day in the civilian population.

In Bakhmut, Donetsk, houses are sometimes targeted by strikes.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk previously announced mandatory evacuation for the entire population of the Donetsk region, one of the two administrative regions of the Donbass basin, which remains partly under the control of kyiv.

She had motivated this decision, in statements on television, by the destruction of gas networks and the 'no heating next winter in the region.