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The general evacuation ordered by the authorities of the 100,000 inhabitants of Sloviansk continues, the authorities, reporting 23,000 people still on the spot Wednesday.
Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday slammed a breach of "diplomatic etiquette" after a phone conversation between Macron and Putin was broadcast days before the war in Ukraine began.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, for her part estimated the same day that the EU must draw up emergency plans to prepare for a complete cut of Russian gas.
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Sloviansk evacuation continues
“There are currently 23,000 inhabitants left” in Sloviansk, which had around 110,000 before the conflict, explained the mayor of the key city for the conquest of Donetsk and Donbass, in a video published on Wednesday.
And "17 have died and 67 have been injured" since the start of hostilities.
“The evacuation is underway.
We take people out of town every day,” he said.
In this city that has been bombed for several weeks, "essential infrastructure is still functioning, but there has been no central water supply network for a month and a third of the city is regularly without electricity", he said. He underlines.
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