A big explosion hit the center of the separatists city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported on Friday evening, citing the Ria news agency. A car was blown up close to a government building in Donetsk, Russian-backed separatists say in A declaration. Russian Interfax news The agency said no one was injured after the incident.
The reported explosion comes amid rising tensions over a possibility that Russian forces are preparing to further invade Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists in ballast of the country began to evacuate civilians.
USA earlier on on the same day accused Russia of seeking a pretext to invade Ukraine, while the shelling resounded out in ballast of the country and Moscow-backed rebels ordered a civilian evacuation of their separatist enclaves.
A journalist from Agence France-Presse (AFP) close to the tense front between government rebel-held forces and territory in the Lugansk region heard the noise of explosions and saw damaged civilian buildings on Kyiv side of line.
Corn in rebel-held areas of Donetsk and Lugansk, separatist leaders accuse Kiev of schedule a offensive and government forces of wearing out sabotage, in which american secretary of State Antony Blinken nicknamed a strategy of “creating false Provocation.”
As Moscow feared taking the alleged Ukrainian offensive as a pretext to launch its own intervention, Ukrainian foreign policy minister furiously denied the allegations.
“We categorically refute Russian disinformation reports on Ukraine’s claims offensive operations or acts of sabotage in chemical production facilities,” said Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter.
“Ukraine does not carry out or plan such actions in the Donbas. We are fully committed to diplomatic dispute resolution only.”
The women and children first
Videos circulating on Russian-language social media showed blaring sirens in Separatists held Donetsk as Moscow-backed militia leaders ordered a civilian evacuation to Russia.
Denis Pushilin, head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said: “Women, children and the elderly are likely to be evacuated first.
“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in the close future will give the order for soldiers go on the offensive.”
The leader of the separatist neighbor of Lugansk region in Eastern Ukraine Leonid Pasechnik also urged residents to evacuate to Russia “to avoid civilian casualties”.
During this time, all eyes were on of Russian President Vladimir Putin next move like Moscow announced he will supervise a weekend exercise of “strategic forces” – ballistic and cruise missiles.
“We are witnessing a deterioration of the situation,” Putin said at a press conference. with son Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow.
Russia demanded that the United States withdraw all forces from NATO members in Central and Eastern Europe and is changing up pressure on Ukraine.
Blinken told the Munich Security Conference that what happened “in the last 24 to 48 hours is part of a scenario that already in place of creating false provocation, of then having to respond to these provocations and finally commit new aggression against Ukraine.”
Russia has denied having such a plan and claims to have started withdrawing some of massed troops on The borders of Ukraine.
But Ukraine defense The ministry said 149,000 were still there, and US officials say the number continues to rise, reaching as high as 190,000 if pro-Russian rebels are included.
US President Joe Biden will hold video interviews with Western allies, including leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany and NATO, later on Friday to discuss the crisis.
Thursday, a shell pierced a hole in the wall of a kindergarten in government- territory held near the front line in the ukrainian village of Stanytsia Luganska.
“It could have been much worse”
The 20 children and 18 adults inside escaped serious injury but the attack sets off international howls of demonstration.
“This hit the gym. After breakfast, the children had gym to classify. So another 15 minutes and everything could have been much, much worse,” Natalia Slesareva, a school laundry worker, told AFP.
On Friday, a party of the village remained without electricity.
Ukraine’s joint command center said rebels violated ceasefirefire 53 times between midnight and 5:00 p.m. Friday, as separatist groups in Donetsk and Lugansk claimed the army fired 27 times in the morning.
“There are no casualties among the military personnel of the joint forces as result of enemy actions,” the Ukrainian command center said, accusing the rebels of firing civil artillery population areas.
“Ukrainian defenders have returned fire Stop enemy activity only in Case of a menace for life of service members. »
The dispute in Eastern Ukraine rumbled on for eight years old, claiming life of more over 14,000 people and force more more than 1.5 million of their homes.
‘Keep it cool head’
Speaking in Parliament, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov insisted that Kiev had “no intention of to drive military operations” against the separatists or the Crimea annexed by Russia.
“Our mission is to do nothing of the things that the Russians are trying to cause us to do”, Reznikov added.
“You have to push back but keep ton cold blood head.”
The Russian defense ministry upped the ante again by announcing that Putin would on Saturday supervise an “exercise of strategic deterrence forces… during which ballistic and cruise missiles will be launched.”
the air strengthunits of South military district, as well as the North Sea and Black Sea fleets would be involved.
Russia’s aggressive stance sent diplomatic shockwaves through the West, rushing to counter an unpredictable foe during what has been described as the worst menace for European security since the Cold War.
A big explosion hit the center of the separatists city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported on Friday evening, citing the Ria news agency. A car was blown up close to a government building in Donetsk, Russian-backed separatists say in A declaration. Russian Interfax news The agency said no one was injured after the incident.
The reported explosion comes amid rising tensions over a possibility that Russian forces are preparing to further invade Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists in ballast of the country began to evacuate civilians.
USA earlier on on the same day accused Russia of seeking a pretext to invade Ukraine, while the shelling resounded out in ballast of the country and Moscow-backed rebels ordered a civilian evacuation of their separatist enclaves.
A journalist from Agence France-Presse (AFP) close to the tense front between government rebel-held forces and territory in the Lugansk region heard the noise of explosions and saw damaged civilian buildings on Kyiv side of line.
Corn in rebel-held areas of Donetsk and Lugansk, separatist leaders accuse Kiev of schedule a offensive and government forces of wearing out sabotage, in which american secretary of State Antony Blinken nicknamed a strategy of “creating false Provocation.”
As Moscow feared taking the alleged Ukrainian offensive as a pretext to launch its own intervention, Ukrainian foreign policy minister furiously denied the allegations.
“We categorically refute Russian disinformation reports on Ukraine’s claims offensive operations or acts of sabotage in chemical production facilities,” said Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter.
“Ukraine does not carry out or plan such actions in the Donbas. We are fully committed to diplomatic dispute resolution only.”
The women and children first
Videos circulating on Russian-language social media showed blaring sirens in Separatists held Donetsk as Moscow-backed militia leaders ordered a civilian evacuation to Russia.
Denis Pushilin, head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said: “Women, children and the elderly are likely to be evacuated first.
“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in the close future will give the order for soldiers go on the offensive.”
The leader of the separatist neighbor of Lugansk region in Eastern Ukraine Leonid Pasechnik also urged residents to evacuate to Russia “to avoid civilian casualties”.
During this time, all eyes were on of Russian President Vladimir Putin next move like Moscow announced he will supervise a weekend exercise of “strategic forces” – ballistic and cruise missiles.
“We are witnessing a deterioration of the situation,” Putin said at a press conference. with son Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow.
Russia demanded that the United States withdraw all forces from NATO members in Central and Eastern Europe and is changing up pressure on Ukraine.
Blinken told the Munich Security Conference that what happened “in the last 24 to 48 hours is part of a scenario that already in place of creating false provocation, of then having to respond to these provocations and finally commit new aggression against Ukraine.”
Russia has denied having such a plan and claims to have started withdrawing some of massed troops on The borders of Ukraine.
But Ukraine defense The ministry said 149,000 were still there, and US officials say the number continues to rise, reaching as high as 190,000 if pro-Russian rebels are included.
US President Joe Biden will hold video interviews with Western allies, including leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany and NATO, later on Friday to discuss the crisis.
Thursday, a shell pierced a hole in the wall of a kindergarten in government- territory held near the front line in the ukrainian village of Stanytsia Luganska.
“It could have been much worse”
The 20 children and 18 adults inside escaped serious injury but the attack sets off international howls of demonstration.
“This hit the gym. After breakfast, the children had gym to classify. So another 15 minutes and everything could have been much, much worse,” Natalia Slesareva, a school laundry worker, told AFP.
On Friday, a party of the village remained without electricity.
Ukraine’s joint command center said rebels violated ceasefirefire 53 times between midnight and 5:00 p.m. Friday, as separatist groups in Donetsk and Lugansk claimed the army fired 27 times in the morning.
“There are no casualties among the military personnel of the joint forces as result of enemy actions,” the Ukrainian command center said, accusing the rebels of firing civil artillery population areas.
“Ukrainian defenders have returned fire Stop enemy activity only in Case of a menace for life of service members. »
The dispute in Eastern Ukraine rumbled on for eight years old, claiming life of more over 14,000 people and force more more than 1.5 million of their homes.
‘Keep it cool head’
Speaking in Parliament, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov insisted that Kiev had “no intention of to drive military operations” against the separatists or the Crimea annexed by Russia.
“Our mission is to do nothing of the things that the Russians are trying to cause us to do”, Reznikov added.
“You have to push back but keep ton cold blood head.”
The Russian defense ministry upped the ante again by announcing that Putin would on Saturday supervise an “exercise of strategic deterrence forces… during which ballistic and cruise missiles will be launched.”
the air strengthunits of South military district, as well as the North Sea and Black Sea fleets would be involved.
Russia’s aggressive stance sent diplomatic shockwaves through the West, rushing to counter an unpredictable foe during what has been described as the worst menace for European security since the Cold War.