As Russia intensified its offensive, the governor of the last remaining eastern province urged his 350,000 residents to leave.
The governor said it was necessary to get people out of the province to save lives.
The fate of the country will be decided by the eastern part of the country.
We will be able to concentrate more on our enemy once there are fewer people.
The governor's call for residents to leave appeared to be one of the biggest suggested evacuates of the war, but it's not clear whether people will be willing and safe to leave. More than 7 million Ukrainians are estimated to be displaced within the country, and more than 4 million refugees have left the country since Russia's invasion began.
After a long period of relative calm, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy said an air alert was issued Tuesday night in almost all of the country.
Zelenskyy said in his video address that logic should not be used in the actions of terrorists. The Russian army never takes a break. It needs to take people's lives, to intimidate people, so that even a few days without an air alarm already feels like part of the terror.
Most of the military activity took place in the east of the country. Russia's main targets are now his city and a city 10 miles to the north, according to the Kramatorsk Governor. Without a specific target, the shelling was very chaotic.
The Ukrainian military left the city of Lysychansk to avoid being surrounded. Russia's defense minister and Putin said the city's capture gave Moscow control of all of Luhansk, one of two provinces that make up the Donbas. He claimed that Russian forces were moving weapons.
Will Russia be able to complete its seizure of the Donbas by taking the rest of the country? Russian troops who fought in Luhansk need to take a break.
Moscow's main priorities are preserving the lives and health of its troops and avoiding the threat to the security of civilians, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.