and its surroundings governor oleg sinegubov said on facebook on sunday reporting 66 strikes in 24 hoursthe russian army continues to wage war on civilians due to a lack of victories at the front he saidthe mayor of eastern lysychansk oleksandr zaika on saturday asked residents to evacuate as soon as possible due to constant shelling by the russian armymeanwhile in kramatorsk minibuses assembled at a church to collect shaken evacuees almost 80 people most of them elderly sheltered in a building near the targeted stationthe local station was serving as the main evacuation hub for refugees from parts of the eastern donbas region still under ukrainian controlafp reporters at the station saw the remains of a missile tagged in white paint with the words for our children in russian an expression used by prorussian separatists to invoke their own losses since fighting in donbas began in 2014the governor of donetsk claimed a missile with cluster munitions banned by an international treaty was used in the attack according to remarks published by the interfax news agency nato plans new force speaking saturday from warsaw european commission president ursula von der leyen said a global pledging event for ukrainian refugees has raised 101 billion euros 11 billionin another sign of western solidarity nato secretary general jens stoltenberg said the military alliance was drawing up plans for a permanent military force on its border to prevent further russian aggressionwhat we see now is a new reality a new normal for european security he said in an interview with britains daily telegraphtherefore we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset a longerterm adaptation of natohe said the new force would be one of the longterm consequences of putins invasionrussian troops appear intent on creating a longsought land link between occupied crimea and the moscowbacked separatist territories of donetsk and lugansk in the donbas regiongrowing evidence of atrocities has also galvanised ukraines allies in the eu which has approved an embargo on russian coal frozen billions in assets of sanctioned individuals and ordered the closure of its ports to russian vesselsbucha where authorities say hundreds were killed some with their hands bound has become a byword for the brutality allegedly inflicted under russian occupationand ukrainian officials say they are uncovering even greater devastation in nearby towns prisoner exchange ukraine said saturday it had completed a third prisoner exchange with russia bringing 12 soldiers and 14 civilians homebut moscow said russian troops also fired on a ukrainian vessel trying to evacuate commanders of the azov battalion from the besieged southeastern city of mariupolthe azov special operations detachment has been fighting russian forces in mariupol scene of some of the wars most grievous civilian suffering as it lies between russiaoccupied crimea and the prorussian separatist regions in ukraines eastfighting has become increasingly fierce in the region as russia redirects its focusthe governor of donetsk said that russian shelling had also killed