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India Asks Citizens To Urgently Leave Ukraine As War Escalates


India asks citizens to urgently leave Ukraine as war escalates

Ukrainian cities have also been hit by drones and missiles in recent days.

New Delhi:

India on Wednesday issued an advisory asking all its citizens to avoid traveling to Ukraine, citing the “deteriorating security situation” in the country.

“Indian nationals, including students, currently in Ukraine are advised to leave Ukraine at the earliest possible means,” the Indian Embassy in Ukraine said in a published statement. on their Twitter.

The advice came as Russian President Vladimir Putin issued martial law on Wednesday in four regions of Ukraine that he said Russia had annexed, while some residents of the occupied Kherson city had left by boat after warning of an impending attack.

Images of people fleeing Kherson were broadcast on Russian state television, depicting the exodus – from the right bank of the Dnipro river – as an attempt to wipe out the city of civilians before it became a region. fight.

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-backed local government, made the video call after Russian forces in the area were driven back 20-30 kilometers in the past few weeks. They risk being pinned to the western bank of the 2,200-kilometer Dnipro River that divides Ukraine.

In a move ostensibly designed to help Russia cement its position over regions of Ukraine it occupies part of – including Kherson – Putin told the Security Council he was imposing an order martial law in those areas.

Beyond the much tighter security measures, the immediate impact of that is unclear.

Kyiv, which does not recognize Moscow’s annexation of the four regions, mocked the move.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the President of Ukraine, wrote: “The enforcement of ‘Martial Law’ on the territories occupied by Russia should only be considered a pseudo-legitimacy of looting of property. of the Ukrainians”.

“This doesn’t change anything for Ukraine: we continue to liberate and don’t mind our territories.”

Eight months after the invasion, Ukraine is prosecuting major counter-attacks east and south to try to capture as much territory as possible before winter after orienting Russian forces in several areas.

The conflict has killed thousands, displaced millions, crushed Ukrainian cities, rocked the global economy and revived Cold War-era geopolitical fissures.

Putin also issued a decree restricting movement in and out of eight regions bordering Ukraine and ordered the creation of a special coordination council under Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to advance the faltering war effort.

Kherson is the largest population center Moscow has captured and held since the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24.

Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, accused Russia of orchestrating a propaganda program there.

Yermak wrote on the messaging app Telegram: “The Russians are trying to scare the people of Kherson with fake news reports about our army shelling the city, and arrange a propaganda program about the evacuation. “.

‘LOOMING OFFENSIVE’

Ukrainian cities have also been hit by drones and missiles in recent days, and Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv, said the capital’s air defenses were back up and running on Monday. Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymry Zelenskiy, who said a third of his country’s power plants were hit by Russian attacks, on Wednesday discussed security at power supply facilities with officials senior positions.

Zelenskiy wrote on the messaging app Telegram: “We are working to create mobile power points for the critical infrastructure of cities, towns and villages.

“We are preparing for different scenarios of possible consequences. Ukraine will defend itself. No matter what the enemy plans and does.”

In Kherson, Stremousov said the city and especially its right bank could be bombarded by Ukrainian forces, adding that residents leaving would be accommodated inside Russia.

“I ask you to take my words seriously and interpret them as a call to evacuate as quickly as possible,” he said.

“We have no plans to surrender the city, we will stand firm until the last moment.”

The head of the Russian-installed Kherson region, Stremousov’s boss, said about 50,000-60,000 people would be evacuated over the next six days. The city of Kherson had a pre-war population of about 280,000 but many of them fled.

“The Ukrainian side is building up forces for a large-scale attack,” official Vladimir Saldo told state television. “Where the military operates, there is no place for civilians.”

Saldo, who said Russia has the resources to hold Kherson and even counterattack if necessary, also said he would ban civilians from entering the area for seven days.

Staff members at Kherson’s Russia-backed administration were also moved to the left bank of the Dnipro, he said.

The evacuation calls followed a bleak assessment of Russia’s prospects in the region from General Sergei Surovikin, the new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine.

“The situation in the ‘Special Military Operations’ area can be described as tense,” Surovikin told the state-owned Rossiya 24 news channel. “The situation in this area (Kherson) is very difficult. The enemy is deliberately attacking infrastructure and residential buildings.”

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