KYIV: Ukraine on Thursday ordered more evacuations in the east, from a town close to where Moscow’s army recently made a swift breakthrough, as it steps up pressure ahead of the US-Russia summit.
“We began the mandatory evacuation of families with children from the town of Druzhkivka,” said Donetsk regional military administration head Vadym Filashkin, adding that four more villages near the town were also ordered to evacuate.
He added that 1,879 children were remaining in the settlements.