Lviv (Ukraine) (EFE).- Ukraine on Friday urged the around 6,000 civilians who, according to its calculations, still remain in Bakhmut to immediately leave the city, the object of continuous attacks by Russian forces.
“They must immediately evacuate” the city, where “enemy artillery” is attacking residential areas, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on her Telegram channel.
In the last day alone, five civilians were killed and nine wounded in those attacks, added Vereshchuk, who was surprised that 6,000 civilians still remain there.
Given the seriousness of the situation, the also Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine insisted that they should leave as soon as possible because, if they stay, they endanger themselves and their families, but they also make the work of those who are trying to help them, such as defense and security forces or volunteers.
Bakhmut is one of the strongholds of Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk region and is considered the key to access Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the largest cities in the region controlled by Kiev forces.
Therefore, its conquest is one of the main current objectives of the Russian troops.