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Russia isolates occupied areas and shoots aid workers, Ukraine continues evacuations
Caitlin McFall
Thu, April 21, 2022, 9:12 AM
Russian forces have isolated occupied settlements in northeast Ukraine in the Kharkiv region Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense said Thursday, adding that they have been firing upon volunteer aid workers.
"There is an absolute ban on the delivery of humanitarian trucks from controlled Ukraine territory," the ministry warned in a Facebook post. "Locals have been warned that volunteers trying to deliver help are being shot."
The ministry said the isolated settlements were in the Velykyi Burluk district – an area just 20 miles from the Russian border.
Russia has been utilizing the Kharkiv region as it re-enforces its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
All evacuation routes have also reportedly been blocked from the area with departures allowed "exclusively to the territory of the Russian Federation."
The defense ministry said that mobile phones were not working and many were without electricity. Access to ATMs, medical services and basic needs were also unavailable, and the ministry noted that consumer goods were being "sold at significantly overpriced prices."]
Kharkiv is roughly 30 miles from the Russian border and sits along a major thoroughfare that the invading forces have relied on as they head south toward the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
U.S. defense officials have warned that Russia is looking to pinch the Luhansk and Donetsk regions – commonly referred to as the Donbas – by pushing forces down from the north through Kharkiv and up through the southeast port city of Mariupol.
Responders are seen at the scene after a building destroyed by a Russian rocket attack in downtown Kharkiv Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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So rescue workers are being shot!
They're trucking people off to "camps" in Russia!
I thought they were there to get rid of Nazis not show them what to do!!
BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!