Russia continuing to ‘raise true hell’ in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian soldiers ride on a tank through a street in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

Russian forces are managing to “raise true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland despite reports of them taking an operational pause, a regional governor has said.

The Ukrainian government has urged people in Russian-occupied areas in the south to evacuate “by all possible means”, while deadly Russian shelling was reported in Ukraine’s east and south.