The governor of the eastern region of Luhansk, Serhiy Gaidai, has urged people to flee immediately as Russia increases its shelling in the area, the BBC reports. Ukrainian officials on Saturday said that ten humanitarian corridors had been agreed upon to evacuate people from regions besieged by Russian forces. On Friday, the Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said thousands of civilians were at a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk when a missile strike hit the building, killing as many as 50 people. Russia has assigned a general with extensive combat experience in Syria to command operations in Ukraine, a senior US official told the New York Times. Content warning: This timeline includes live-updating Tweets which may consist of sensitive images from this developing news story.
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