“The governors of Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions are urging the population to leave these areas and are doing everything possible to ensure that the evacuations are carried out in an organized manner,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk wrote in a Telegram message. service. He urged residents in the east to work with authorities, saying Kyiv “will not be able to help them” after an attack. In other key developments:Boris Johnson said today that the killing of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces “does not seem far from genocide” and promised more sanctions against President Putin’s regime.