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Ukrainian military governors in the east of the country on Thursday reported heavy shelling amid an apparent shift by the Russian military to redirect military efforts to the Donbass region.
“We clearly feel that the transmission of [military] Technology in our direction starts now,” said Serhiy Haidai, head of the Luhansk region’s military administration, in a televised address.
“And as equipment and personnel are swapped out, our enemies just fire closer and harder. Everything is already involved here: aircraft, artillery, large-caliber weapons, mortars – all settlements are being shelled,” he said.
Separately, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, said on Telegram that Russian forces continued shelling the central part of the region overnight.
“In Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Novomykhailivka, the enemy again used white phosphorus shells,” he said, referring to munitions that are either banned in populated areas or restricted under international law.
Eleven wounded civilians from Maryinka Municipality, including four children, were taken to the Kurakhiv city hospital.
Planned evacuation: Ukrainian and Russian officials said a major evacuation from the besieged city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine was planned for Thursday.
Haidai, the Luhansk regional administrator, said efforts were also underway to evacuate civilians from small towns in his region, even without such agreements with the Russian side.
“Our evacuation takes place every day without the so-called humanitarian corridors,” he said. “We don’t trust the orcs [a derogatory Ukrainian term for Russian troops] very much, and secondly, they don’t really agree with these corridors. It would be very important for us to evacuate people from Rubizhne and Popasna – the settlements that are under maximum shelling.
“There are fights right in the cities. And from these cities it is impossible to evacuate people and even to deliver humanitarian aid because of the heavy shelling there.”
Haidai added: “So we are working as usual, evacuation buses are constantly coming from Kreminna, from Lysychansk, from Severodonetsk, partly from Rubizhne, from the area controlled by our defenders. And sometimes our porters break into Popasna, where they pick up something small groups of people.”
