Houses in Severodonetsk during the fighting in DonbassMOSCOW, May 31. Head of the Kyiv-controlled Lugansk Regional military administration Sergei Gaidai announced the suspension of the evacuation of the civilian population from Severodonetsk — earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly reported that the Kyiv regime refuses to take its citizens out of the combat zone and uses them as human shields. LPR Ambassador to the Russian Federation Rodion Miroshnik said on Tuesday that Ukrainian militants are going to leave Severodonetsk, hiding behind civilians, for which they intend to take hostages on the territory of the Azov chemical plant. «: how mothers save children from shelling»For the time being, we are temporarily stopping the evacuation, because it is already unsafe for the people we are taking out,» Gaidai said on the air of the Ukraine 24 TV channel. He also acknowledged that the situation for the Ukrainian troops in Severodonetsk was “most difficult”, the military of the Russian Federation and the republics of Donbass moved deep into the city, street fighting was going on. the line of defense of Ukrainian troops in Severodonetsk and occupied a foothold in the city. According to him, the Ukrainian security forces are hiding in residential areas and are firing at residential areas from which they have already withdrawn. As Apty Alaudinov, an assistant to the head of Chechnya for the power bloc, noted yesterday, 15-17% of the residential sector remained in the city. Severodonetsk is a large center of the chemical industry with a population of 109,000 people (as of 2019). Now, according to various sources, 10-15 thousand civilians remain in the city.
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