Civilians are hiding on the territory of the Azot plant/Sergey Gaidai
For Severodonetsk continues active fighting in the city itself. Part of the civilian population decided to hide from the Russian invaders on the territory of the Azot plant. They have no way to get out of there now.
The impossibility of evacuation from the Severodonetsk “Azot” was announced by the head of the Luhansk regional military-civilian administration Sergei Gaidai. He noted that it is dangerous because of the constant shelling and fighting.
According to him, 568 people, including 38 children, are hiding on the territory of the plant.
The civilians who are on Azot have food supplies, but they have not been replenished for two weeks, Roman Vlasenko, head of the Severodonetsk regional military administration, told CNN. According to him, most of those present there are chemical plant workers, their families and some local residents. They were hiding there from the very beginning of the cordon of the city, because there are bomb shelters on the territory.
The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly approached these people with an offer to evacuate when it was possible. All this was done before the Russians blew up the main bridges connecting Severodonetsk and Lisichansk across the Seversky Donets River. But people decided to stay, deciding that they would be safer in the bomb shelters in Azot territory.
According to him, there were several cases when civilians left the shelter, for example, to cook food, and then were injured or killed as a result of shelling.
Sergey Gaidai said that all three main bridges between Severodonetsk and neighboring Lisichansk are impassable. At the same time, routes between cities still exist, but they require passage along the Seversky Donets River, so there is a big threat of falling under enemy fire.
Is it possible to evacuate civilians
The head of the Luhansk region said that exit from the territory of the plant is possible only with a complete ceasefire. But he was rather skeptical about any promises from Russia. After all, infidels during the war repeatedly violated their promises to open evacuation corridors. And when they did, they often drove evacuated civilians into their territory and did not comply with the ceasefire agreements.
So this time, Russia announced that it would allow the civilian population to leave only to Russian-controlled territory in the north, and not in Lysichansk in the west, which is under the control of Ukrainian troops.
“I hear a lot of what they say. But 99% of it is just nonsense or lies. If there will be a complete ceasefire, we will be able to withdraw people. But I do not believe the Russians – how many they lie, how many they gave their word and did not keep. There is “a lot of such evidence,” Gaidai said.
