President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 30Vladimir Zelensky said that Kyiv had made a decision on mandatory evacuation from the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic under its control. «There is a government decree on mandatory evacuation from the Donetsk region, everything is being organized. Full support, full assistance — both logistical and payments. We only need the decision of the people themselves, who have not yet accepted it for themselves,» reads a statement published on the website of Zelensky's office. 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 Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, Putin noted, 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. The ultimate goal of the special military operation, according to the President of the Russian Federation, is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia itself. military operation in UkraineThe Ministry of Defense accused Zelensky of hitting a pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka
