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Intensified attack on eastern Ukraine

Kyiv. Russian troops have intensified attacks in eastern Ukraine, forcing large numbers of people to leave their homes and move to safer places. People in the Donetsk region’s Pokrovsk city were seen queuing on Tuesday to board a train to the far western part of the country. Attention Russia had declared independent Donetsk and Luhansk, two regions of the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, and is now trying to control it.

Local residents said that there has been heavy firing in the area for four days, due to which people have been forced to flee. After wreaking havoc in the capital Kyiv and surrounding areas, Russian forces have now focused on the eastern region and stepped up attacks there. Many cities have been destroyed in this attack.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed in principle that the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross should be involved in evacuating people from the army besieged plant in Mariupol. should be done. UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said that Guterres and Putin discussed proposals for humanitarian aid and evacuation of people from conflict zones during Tuesday’s meeting. Significantly, Guterres went on a three-day visit to Russia, which Ukraine had expressed displeasure about.

On the other hand, nearly 36 years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Tuesday that the danger of a disaster has increased significantly after Russian troops captured a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The agency’s director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said radiation levels were normal, but the situation was still not stable. Nuclear plant officials have to be vigilant.

Himansh Verma

Himansh Verma is a senior journalist at Youthistaan who is writing for Youthistaan.com since 2018. Himansh covers latest news and trending topics.
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