US President Joe Biden will make a statement about the situation in Ukraine. The current broadcast of his speech is currently leading from 23:55 Moscow time (22:55 in Kyiv): What is happening in Ukraine now? The authorities of the so -called DPR on February 18 announced the evacuation of women …

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US President Joe Biden will make a statement about the situation in Ukraine.

The current broadcast of his speech is currently leading from 23:55 Moscow time (22:55 in Kyiv):

What is happening in Ukraine now?

The authorities of the so -called DPR on February 18 announced the evacuation of women, children and elderly people in Russia. According to the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, a massive centralized departure of the population to the Russian Federation was organized.

Pushilin also said that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky allegedly, in the near future, would give an order to the Ukrainian army to start an attack on the DPR and LPR . In Ukraine, they note that they do not plan any offensive operations in the Donbass.

In the Donetsk and Lugansk regions on February 17 there was an aggravation of hostilities. Both the Ukrainian side and the so -called DPR and LPR declared hostilities. OSCE observers counted about 500 explosions in the morning, then the intensity slept. In the village of Luganskaya, controlled by Ukraine, the shell hit the building of the kindergarten: no one was injured from the children, several employees of the institution were taken to the hospital. The Ukrainian side claims that the shell flew by the LPR, and the LPR claims to be shot from territories controlled by Kyiv.

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Chronicle of events

• On February 17, the representative of the US State Department, Pered Price, said that, despite the Ministry of Defense’s statements about the return of the army from the exercises, Russia not only does not go to de -escalate the situation around Ukraine, but also continues to concentrate troops on the border. According to the State Department, Moscow concentrated more than 150 thousand military personnel on the borders, increasing the presence of seven thousand people over the past days.
• Until the last moment, Russia transferred military equipment closer to the border with Ukraine, according to the research group Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), which studied the video published on social networks.
• The transfer of technology in Russian territory took place against the backdrop of large-scale military exercises in Belarus with the participation of Russian military and equipment, as well as the naval exercises that began on February 13 with the participation of several large landing ships.
• Russia claimed that it was not conducting any unusual military activity on its territory, and, on the contrary, accused Ukraine of preparing a power operation in the Donbass.
• Ukrainian Pravda on February 14 reported the mass departure of businessmen from Ukraine.Rinat Akhmetov (1st place in the list of the richest Ukrainians according to Forbes) and Boris Kolesnikov (55th place) left Ukraine (55th place).
• On February 13, the heads of Ukraine and the United States held telephone conversations. Vladimir Zelensky told American President Joe Biden that Ukraine was ready for any development of events, and assured that Kyiv, Kharkov, Lviv, Dnipro, Odessa and other Ukrainian cities are under reliable protection. He also called an American colleague to Kyiv.
• On February 12, Joe Biden talked on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the conversation, the situation around Ukraine was discussed.
• Washington previously announced the risk of invading Russian troops into Ukrainian territory during the Olympics, which ends on February 20. The media write that the United States is allowing the beginning of an attack on February 15 or 16.
• The US leadership on February 11 recommended citizens to leave Ukraine within the next 48 hours. Similar recommendations were issued by Japan, Great Britain and a number of European Union countries.

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The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, then, under the control of pro -Russian separatists, parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions with both regional centers were controlled. In February 2019, Petro Poroshenko, who was then the President of Ukraine, said that since the beginning of the conflict in the Donbass Russia occupied 44 thousand square kilometers, or 7% of the territory of Ukraine.