Enemy firing heavy artillery on contact line, battles ongoing in Vuhledar and Marinka in Donetsk region

"The shelling continues now along the entire contact line. The battles are ongoing in Vuhledar, Marinka. Toretsk is under heavy artillery and mortar fire at this very moment. All measures are being taken to evacuate the population," Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said during the nationwide telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

As noted, the evacuation in the region is organized, the number of people is very large.

Kyrylenko called on all civilians to evacuate so that Ukrainian defenders could effectively defend the country.

On February 24, Russian president Putin started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops shell and destroy key infrastructure facilities, massively fire on residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages using artillery, MLRS, ballistic missiles, and aviation bombs.