kyiv ukraine ukraines president urged civilians on saturday to evacuate the frontline donetsk region the scene of fierce clashes with the russian military as kyiv called on the red cross and un to gain access to its soldiers being held by moscows forcesthe eastern donetsk region has faced the brunt of russias offensive since its assault on kyiv failed weeks into the invasion launched on february 24president volodymyr zelenskyy warned in his daily address that thousands of people including children were still in the regions battleground areas with six civilians killed and 15 wounded on friday according to the donetsk governortheres already a governmental decision about obligatory evacuation from donetsk zelenskyy said underscoring authorities calls to leave the besieged region in recent weeksleave we will help zelenskyy said at this stage of the war terror is the main weapon of russiaofficial ukrainian estimates put the number of civilians still living in the unoccupied area of donetsk at between 200000 and 220000a mandatory evacuation notice posted saturday evening said the coming winter made it a matter of urgency particularly for the more than 50000 children still in the regionthey need to be evacuated you cannot put them in mortal danger in the winter without heating light without the ability to keep them warm kyivs ministry of reintegration of temporarily occupied territories said in a statementzelenskyy in his address also once more pressed the international community especially the united states to have russia officially declared a state sponsor of terrorismthe call came a day after a jail holding ukrainian prisoners of war in kremlincontrolled olenivka was bombed leaving scores dead with kyiv and moscow trading blameon saturday ukrainian human rights official dmytro lubinets said on national television he had asked the international committee of the red cross icrc and the united nations human rights monitoring mission to go to olenivkathe icrc has made a request but not yet obtained authorisation from the russians he saidrussias defence ministry accused kyiv of striking the olenivka prison with ussupplied longrange missiles in an egregious provocation designed to stop soldiers from surrenderingit said saturday that the dead included ukrainian forces who had surrendered after weeks of fighting off russias brutal bombardment of the sprawling azovstal steelworks in the port city of mariupolthe defence ministry said 50 ukrainian prisoners were killed and 73 were taken to hospital with serious injuriesall political legal and moral responsibility for this bloody massacre of ukrainians lies with zelenskyy personally his criminal regime and washington which backs them it saidzelenskyy laid the blame squarely on russiathis was a deliberate russian war crime a deliberate mass murder of ukrainian prisoners of war he saidmembers of the azov regiment were among those who surrendered at azovstalazov regiment commander mykyta nadtochiy said he considered the attack on the jail to have been an act of public executionalso on saturday russian energy giant gazprom suspended gas supplies to latvia in the latest tightening of gas provision to european union states which have accused russia of squeezing