Aggressors’ offensive in Donbas could make it uninhabited - Zelenskyy

Olha Hlushchenko – Friday, 27 May 2022, 00:10

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russian invaders are reducing towns in Donbas to ashes and could make the region devoid of people.

Source: Presidential video address

Quote: "The current offensive of the aggressors in Donbas could make the region devoid of people.

They want to reduce Popasna, Bakhmut, Lyman, Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk to ashes. Like Volnovakha, like Mariupol.

In cities and communities closer to the Russian border, in Donetsk and Luhansk, they are rounding up everyone they can to fill the place of those killed and wounded in the occupation contingent. 

All this, including the deportation of our people and the mass killings of civilians, is an obvious policy of genocide pursued by Russia."