07:09: Eastern Ukraine prepares for heavy fighting
Eastern Ukraine, now a priority target for the Kremlin, has called on its civilian population to flee the looming fighting.
Russian forces on Wednesday bombed several localities in eastern Ukraine, including Severodonetsk or Rubizhne, killing at least one person, denounced on Wednesday evening the governor of the Lugansk region (east), still under Ukrainian control, Serguiï Gaïdaï .
“I’m asking people to evacuate, because we clearly see that before going on the all-out offensive, the enemy is just going to completely destroy all these places,” he said when interviewed by a television channel. Ukrainian. “Please go” while there is still time, he insisted.