The head of Ukraine’s self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that he’d signed a decree on general mobilisation in the republic. I urge fellow countrymen who are in reserve to come to the military commissariats. Today I signed a decree on general mobilisation, Pushilin said. He said that no matter how events develop, the DPR will be able to contain Ukraine’s aggression. The decree comes amid tension between the self-proclaimed Donbass republics and Ukraine. Thousands of people from Donetsk and Lugansk have had to leave their homes and are being evacuated to Russia due to alleged constant shelling by Ukrainian forces.
Russia’s Sputnik News said Kiev has repeatedly used 120mm mortars. banned by the Minsk accord, against the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics DPR and LPR. Over the past hours, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission OSCE SMM, said it had registered 222 ceasefire violations in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, and 648 breaches of the truce in the Lugansk region.
As of Saturday morning, around 25,000 people have crossed the border with Russia from the LPR side. An extraordinary meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group has been called for Saturday morning, as tensions show no sign of abating.
The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics announced the evacuation of their citizens to Russia’s Rostov Region over a dramatic escalation of tensions along the line of contact and a possible full-fledged offensive by the Ukrainian army.
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Kiev needs to engage in dialogue with the self-proclaimed Donbass republics and come up with a common solution to end the ongoing conflicts.!!!
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