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Zelensky announces mandatory evacuation from Donetsk region

"There's already a governmental decision about obligatory evacuation from Donetsk region. Please, follow the evacuation. At this phase of the war, terror is the main weapon of Russia," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily address on Saturday while calling for the evacuation of the eastern Donetsk region.

Reuters WORLD
Published July 30,2022
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The Ukrainian government has decided on a mandatory evacuation of people in the region around the eastern city of Donetsk, the scene of fierce fighting with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

In a late-night address, Zelensky also said the hundreds of thousands of people still in combat zones in the larger Donbas region needed to leave.