Zelensky urges evacuations. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story August 1, 2022 By Amelia Nierenberg Writer, Briefings Good morning. We're covering a call to evacuate eastern Ukraine and speculation that Nancy Pelosi could visit Taiwan. Ukraine's president urged hundreds of thousands of people living in the east to start leaving. David Guttenfelder for The New York Times Zelensky urges a mass evacuation Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, urged civilians in the eastern Donbas region to evacuate. The more people leave the Donetsk region now, he said, " the fewer people the Russian Army will have time to kill ." His statement is the first time the Ukrainian government has issued such a broad evacuation order. By doing so before winter, Kyiv sought to give people time to move — and to prevent an unmanageable crisis later. Russian bombardment has destroyed key infrastructure needed to deliver heat and electricity. Zelensky's