The mayor of Mykolaiv, a city in southern Ukraine, Oleksandr Sienkevych, has advised the people there to flee for their life.
According to Sienkevych, the city is being heavily shelled, and anyone who wants to survive should evacuate right once.
‘I suggest everyone who wants to stay alive to leave the city. About 230,000 people remain in Mykolaiv City now,’ the mayor said on Friday, via a CNN program which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
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Evacuation routes out of Mykolaiv lead to Odessa, Kryvyi Rih and the capital city of Kyiv.
The mayor asserted that the situation in the city is ‘generally very bad,’ adding that the city is shelled every day.’
According to him, no fewer than 111 people have already been killed and 502 people have been injured, including six children.
Meanwhile, Russia has claimed that the European Union and NATO are gathering a ‘coalition’ to ‘essentially’ prepare for a war with Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov made this assertion while reacting to the news of Ukraine and Moldova becoming members of the European Union, said the EU is not a military-political bloc like the NATO.
He pointed out that the development of its relations with other countries does not create any threats or risks but added that his country perceives the rhetoric of the union had been increasingly aggressive and “Russophobic.”
Lavrov said at a joint press conference with his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Baku.
The European Union, together with NATO, is gathering a sort of modern coalition to fight, essentially, a war with the Russian Federation,’ Lavrov said, adding Russia will ‘monitor this very closely.’
This was after the European Council granted Ukraine and Moldova EU candidacy status on Thursday.