Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have started evacuating citizens of the breakaway region to Russia, a move that Western leaders fear Moscow could use as a pretext to invade.
After two days of shelling between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists, Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said he believed Kiev was planning to attack the separatist state and announced the evacuation of its citizens to Russia.
