Zelenskiy accuses Moscow of carrying out ‘genocide’ in Donbas

Zelenskiy accuses Moscow of carrying out ‘genocide’ in Donbas

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Moscow of carrying out a “genocide” in the eastern region of Donbas, where the city of Sievierodonetsk is suffering an onslaught of Russian shelling, Qazet.az reports.

Zelenskiy said Russia’s brutal assault on the Donbas could leave the entire region “uninhabited” during his latest national address.

“The current offensive of the occupiers in Donbas can make the region uninhabited.”

“They want to burn Popasna, Bakhmut, Lyman, Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk to ashes. Like Volnovakha, like Mariupol. In cities and communities closer to the Russian border, in Donetsk and Luhansk, they gather everyone they can to fill the place of those killed and wounded in the occupation contingent.”

"All this, including the deportation of our people and the mass killings of civilians, is an obvious policy of genocide pursued by Russia.”