Poltava. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 835 buses left for Sumy to evacuate people, 20 tons of humanitarian aid and medicines were also sent, said the head of the Poltava Regional State Administration of Ukraine Dmitry Lunin. «35 buses have already left the Poltava region for Sumy, in order to evacuate people, in the convoy are representatives of the Red Cross, doctors. We are also sending 20 tons of humanitarian aid: food and medicine,» Lunin said in his Telegram channel. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the Armed Forces From 10.00 Moscow time, the Russian Federation introduces a silence regime for the exit of civilians from a number of Ukrainian cities. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk later said that the first convoy with people from the city of Sumy towards Poltava will go along the humanitarian corridor at 11.00 Moscow time, followed by the civilian population on their cars. At the same time, humanitarian cargo will be sent to the city. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, military groups of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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