MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. Rescuers of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic have failed to evacuate residents of the village of Chernukhino near the Debaltsevo combat area amid shelling from Kiev military, a spokesman for the LPR emergencies ministry said on Saturday.
Alexander Vinnik said that rescue units had failed to move further than a checkpoint on the outskirts of the town of Zorinsk because of intense artillery shelling from the Ukrainian side.
Source: ITAR-TASS
07-02-2015
DPR’s defence ministry: ะตvacuation from Debaltsevo cancelled for security reasons
"No evacuation today, we fear about the civilians
and organisers of evacuation," representative of the defence
ministry at
the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said
MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. Evacuation from Debaltsevo is cancelled on Saturday for security reasons, representative of the defence ministry at the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Eduard Basurin said.
"No evacuation today, we fear about the civilians and organisers of evacuation," he said. "If they can, people are trying to go away themselves, and the militia are assisting them."
On Friday, he said the Ukrainian military used evacuation of civilians to deliver ammunition to the region.
Source: ITAR-TASS
07-02-2015