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I-Ukraine ithe ikwehlisile “ukushoda kwamandla” njengoba onjiniyela besebenzela ukubuyisela ingqalasizinda elinyazwe amagagasi okuhlasela kwemicibisholo yaseRussia.
UNdunankulu wase-Ukraine uDenys Shmyhal uthe ngemuva kokuhlasela kwangoMsombuluko, “onjiniyela bamandla bathembisa ukuqeda imiphumela” ezinsukwini ezizayo.
“Ngasikhathi sinye, ukuntuleka kwamandla ohlelweni lwamandla kuzohlala. Njengamanje, yi-19% yokusetshenziswa kwesibikezelo, “esho. Ibe ngaphezu kuka-30% emasontweni adlule.
Noma kunjalo, u-Shmyhal uthe, “i-35% yezikhungo ezibalulekile zamagridi amakhulu kagesi zonakaliswe ukuhlaselwa okukhulu kwamaRussia ezinyangeni zamuva.”
“Isitha sadubula imicibisholo eyisikhombisa ngesikhathi esisodwa kwesinye seziteshi ezingaphansi kwesifunda sase-Odesa. Ngakho-ke, izinhlelo zokunqamuka kukagesi zisasebenza ezweni,” enezela.
IMeya yase-Odesa uHennadii Trukhanov uthe ukuhlinzekwa kwamanzi nokukhuculula indle sekubuyiselwe ngoLwesibili kusihlwa.
Izindlu zamabhayela ezifunda eziyishumi nanye – ezisetshenziselwa ukufudumeza – zazisebenza, zinikeza abathengi abangaba ngu-88%. “Lokhu kusho ukuthi izakhamuzi zase-Odesa ezingaphezu kuka-600,000 zinokushisa,” kusho uTrukhanov.
Ezinye iziteleka eningizimu: Ukuhlasela kwemicibisholo yaseRussia nezikhali zezikhali kuqhubekile kwenye indawo eningizimu ye-Ukraine.
U-Yaroslav Yanushevych, inhloko yokuphatha amasosha esifundeni sase-Kherson, uthe ngoLwesibili “abahlali baseRussia baphinde bahlasela idolobha laseKherson, bashaya “ingqalasizinda kanye nezakhiwo zokuhlala.”
Kushone umuntu oyedwa kwacima umlilo omkhulu, esho.
Enyakatho, amaRussia ahlasela idolobha laseKryvyi Rih.
UValentyn Reznichenko, inhloko yokuphatha amasosha esifundeni saseDnipropetrovsk, uthe ibhizinisi lezimboni lishayekile.
U-Oleksandr Vilkul, inhloko yesifunda sase-Kryvyi Rih, uthe isiteleka sibonakala sengathi senziwe ngomcibisholo ocibishelayo, esibiza ngokuthi “ukucekela phansi okukhulu.”
UVilkul uthe ngemuva kokuhlasela kwangoMsombuluko, ukubuyiselwa kukagesi kancane kancane sekuqalile. Kodwa ukuphela kwehora nokuhleliwe kuzoqhubeka “ukugcina uhlelo lwamandla e-Ukraine luqinile.”
