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MOSCOW, 19 Feb. The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, announced a temporary evacuation of the population to Russia. His video message was published on the Telegram channel. He noted that, by agreement with the Russian authorities, a place was allocated in the Rostov region for the population of the DPR and LPR, conditions for a quick transition were created at border checkpoints.
«Prepare to attack.» What began in the Donbass According to Pushilin, the Ukrainian army will soon receive an order to launch an offensive in the region. «Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will soon order the military to go on the offensive, to implement a plan to invade the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics,» he said. Pushilin added that the Kiev authorities are constantly increasing the number of military personnel in the conflict zone and pulling weapons there. The head of the Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, made a similar statement. He announced the evacuation of the civilian population to Russia and instructed the departments to ensure this process. Pasechnik also appealed to men capable of holding weapons with a call to defend the republic. Evacuation progress The evacuation of Donetsk residents to Russia is taking place in a normal mode and without excesses, Ivan Adamets, head of the administration of the Kuibyshevsky district of the city, told RIA Novosti. According to him, the organization of the evacuation entrusted to the city administration, work is underway to collect and register people who want to leave for Russia. The number of people who decide to stay in Donetsk, he said, will depend on the development of events on the line of contact in Donbass. The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, in turn, said that the evacuation is taking place in an organized manner, without panic, mainly children and women are evacuated. «Men remain on guard of our homeland,» Kulemzin emphasized.Rospotrebnadzor specialists help receive residents of the DPR and LPR As reported in the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, a working group of the department headed by Acting Minister Alexander Chupriyan was sent to the Rostov Region to organize the reception of citizens of the DPR and LPR. The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, and specialists from the Ministry of Health also flew to the region. A representative of the LPR Ministry of Emergency Situations said at a meeting with Chupriyan that about 25,000 residents of the LPR had already crossed the Russian border. fire on their positions. As Ruslan Yakubov, head of the DPR representative office in the JCCC, told RIA Novosti that Kiev is ignoring the Minsk agreements, using mortars and artillery. Rodion Miroshnik, a representative of the LPR in the political subgroup, told the agency that Kiev was purposefully violating the ceasefire measures in Donbass signed in the summer of 2020. The representative of the People's Militia of the DPR stressed that the artillery armament of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, prohibited by the Minsk agreements and located in positions near the settlements of Donbass, indicates preparations for a military solution.Follow the aggravation of the situation in the DPR and LPR in the online report >> 
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