Russia seeks to capture Kostiantynivka under pretext of evacuating civilians – Zelensky

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this while speaking to journalists, Ukrinform reports. "Russia's story about the 'civilian population' in Kostiantynivka is Putin's reaction to his failure to capture the city. Putin simply wants us to leave Kostiantynivka so that Russian forces can enter and occupy the entire city. I explained my position to the American negotiators: the people there are exclusively Ukrainian citizens with weapons and Russian citizens who are occupiers and also armed. Fighting is taking place inside Kostiantynivka," Zelensky said. He said Ukraine was doing everything possible to evacuate civilians from the city, but handing Kostiantynivka over to Russia would open the way for further advances in Donbas.