The LPR is beginning to evacuate civilians from the line of contact as Ukraine intensifies shelling of the Republic, the LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik said.

"In order to prevent casualties among the civilian population, I call on residents of the Republics who do not have mobilization orders, as well as are not involved in the life support of social and civilian infrastructure, to leave for the Republic for the Russian Federation as soon as possible," he said in a statement published on Friday. *t