Sergiy Gaiday urged residents to depart the area as quickly as doable.
Kyiv, Ukraine:
Russian troops are making ready for a giant assault within the Lugansk area of jap Ukraine, the native governor Sergiy Gaiday mentioned on Telegram Monday, urging a mass evacuation.
“We see that tools is coming from totally different instructions, they’re bringing manpower, they’re bringing gasoline,” Gaiday mentioned in a video assertion.
“We perceive that they’re making ready for a full-scale massive breakthrough,” he added.
Gaiday urged residents to depart the area as quickly as doable.
“Please do not wait on your properties to be bombed,” he mentioned in a separate video.
“Don’t hesitate,” he added, specifying that 1,000 individuals had been evacuated on Monday.
A senior Pentagon official mentioned Russia has eliminated about two-thirds of the troops it had round Kyiv — who have been principally despatched again to Belarus with plans to redeploy elsewhere in Ukraine.
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