[３０日 ロイター] – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised speech on the 30th that he would issue a deportation order for residents of the eastern Donetsk region, where fierce battles with Russia continue.
Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants remaining in the combat zone of the Donbass region, which comprises the provinces of Lugansk and Lugansk, also need to be evacuated. Many residents have refused to move out, but he said, “We still need to move out.”
“If many people leave Donetsk now, we will not give the Russian army time to kill them,” he said, adding that residents would be compensated.
According to reports, Deputy Prime Minister Vereschuk stressed that Donetsk’s natural gas supply had been destroyed and that the evacuation had to be completed before winter arrived.
