20.03.2022, Rubezhnoye.
The Ukrainian authorities did not let all men, as well as women over 40 years old, out of the town of Rubezhnoye in Donbass. RIA Novosti reported this on March 20, citing an eyewitness.
“The Ukrainian authorities evacuated in a peculiar way, selectively. (…) Women over 40 were not let out – sit, wait for the next evacuation. Men, respectively, of any age, from 18 years and above, were not let out either,” a local resident says.
Earlier, it was reported that the LPR People’s Militia entered the town of Rubezhnoye – combat for the city continues in the outskirts. According to the republic’s defense ministry, the Ukrainian army fires on civilians to prevent the evacuation of people.
On February 24, Russia launched a military special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine in order to protect people in the Donbass, who have been subjected to persecutione and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.
The Ukrainian army began pulling heavy weapons and manpower to the contact line in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics long before the Russian military began a special operation and began escalating the conflict on February 17. Mariupol, which was located behind the line of contact on the Ukrainian side, was occupied by the Ukrainian army and the nationalist battalions, who did not let civilians out and used them as a human shield.
The humanitarian corridors organized by Russia did not work until the Ukrainian military grouping in the city was disbanded and reduced in numbers as a result of personnel losses. After that, a mass evacuation of citizens from Mariupol began, both independently in private cars and in organized groups on buses.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
