Ukraine, the separatist leaders of Donbass and Lugansk order “general mobilization”. Kiev: “Ukrainian soldier killed”

Tension skyrocketing in Ukrainewhere fears of a war are growing after the ever more frequent ones violations of the ceasefire: 648 in the last few hours, including 519 explosions. Saturday morning the agency Interfax gave news of one cannonata exploded on Russian territory one kilometer from the border with Ukraine in the Rostov-on-Don region. Meanwhile in the region of Donbassthe eastern strip of Ukraine occupied by ribelli filorussi what the US Ambassador to the OSCE, Michael Carpenter, defined as “one storytelling which can be used to justify the Russian invasion ”. Kiev made it known in a statement that a Ukrainian army soldier was killed from an artillery strike in the east of the country, during an exchange of fire with the pro-Russian militias of Donbass. And it was precisely the separatist leaders of Donbass and that of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic “General mobilization”. It started thereevacuation of the Russian population in the area: the first train with on board over 1,000 refugees is coming to the Russian region of Rostov, on the border with Ukraine, where a state of emergency was declared “due to the growing flow of refugees”. According to the agency Ria Novostithen, already beyond 10 thousand people they would have come from Donbass to Russian territory.

Observers ofOrganization for Security and Cooperation in Europe they said they saw an escalation in the number of attacks along the front line in eastern Ukraine. “In recent days, the special monitoring of the Osce sin Ukraine has observed a dramatic increase in kinetic activity along the contact line in eastern Ukraine,” explains a statement. The number of violations was equal to that recorded before a July 2020 agreement to strengthen the ceasefire. The US president Joe Biden meanwhile, he continues to send messages to Putin: “If Russia pursues its plans, it will be rresponsible for a catastrophic and useless war by choice”. Separatists from Donetsk reported dozens of shots fired since midnight against their territory this morning: more than 6,000 people, including 2,400 children, were transferred from the area. “I ask my fellow citizens who are on the reserve to introduce themselves to their respective military districts. Today I signed a decree for general mobilization ”, the Donbass leader announced in a video message Denis Pushilin. According to Pushilin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will soon order the military to launch an offensive in the Donbass to invade the territory of the self-proclaimed separatist republics.

Meanwhile, according to the USA, Moscow has deployed 150,000 troops in and around Ukraine: According to a US defense official, more than 40 percent of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine are now in a position of attack and Moscow has started a destabilization campaign. The United States, which estimates Russia has placed more than 150,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders, has observed significant movements since Wednesday, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity: “Forty to fifty percent are in an attacking position. And they have been carrying out tactical exercises for the past 48 hours, ”he told reporters.

Despite fears, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, he hasn’t changed his plans and is flying to Munich to take part in the annual Security Conference, dedicated to the Ukrainian crisis. Zelensky’s meetings with the US vice president are scheduled in Munich, Kamala Harris, with the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz. In the past few hours Biden had warned that “it might not be wise” for Zelensky to go to Germany in the midst of the crisis, but that in any case “the decision rests with him”. “If Russia’s goal is to have less NATO”, in the end “it will have more NATO”, said the NATO secretary. Jens Stoltenberg at the security conference. “It is still not too late for Russia to go back, stop the war and work for a peaceful solution,” concluded Stoltenberg. The president of the EU commission, Ursula von der Leyenwarned that a military intervention in Ukraine “could cost Russia a prosperous future” and assured that “even if it completely shut down gas supplies, we in Europe would be safe for this winter”.

Tomorrow the Russian president Vladimir Putin will have a telephone interview with its French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to make the point of the situation.

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