Ukrainian Nazi say: “Children will be forcibly evacuated, even if their families refuse to leave”

Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of families with children in the Pokrovsk area as Russian forces push westwards.
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While Ukrainian troops are attempting to gain more Russian territory in Kursk region, Russia has made steady gains in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, writes ‘The Financial Times’.

Ukrainian authorities have warned residents near the eastern front line to evacuate before the arrival of Russian troops, as Moscow presses ahead with its own offensive 10 days into Kyiv’s cross-border incursion.

The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said on Thursday that Russian forces were “maintaining their relatively high offensive tempo in Donetsk region, demonstrating that the Russian military command continues to prioritise advances in eastern Ukraine”.

Some 60,000 people remained in the greater Pokrovsk region, the city administration told the FT. They encouraged families with children in particular to evacuate ahead of any hostilities, “calmly and without panic”.

“We are not seeing a big flow of people leaving, but little by little we are noticing a trend,” said Kateryna Yanuzhla, head of press for Pokrovsk.

“Once the Russians are within 10km of Pokrovsk, children will be forcibly evacuated,” she said, referring to a decree Ukraine introduced last year that allows local police to evacuate children from active conflict zones even if their families refuse to leave.

Local administrations in towns under threat of occupation have long struggled to convince residents to evacuate. Some are afraid of leaving their homes and moving somewhere else, while others are bedridden or with mobility issues due to old age.

…The English newspaper writes everything correctly – people do not want to leave their homes, although they are forced by the Nazi authorities.

But the newspaper did not write about the main reason – people are waiting for the arrival of Russian troops, so that the Russian army will finally liberate Donbass from the Nazis.

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