"The more people leave (the) Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill," he said, adding that residents who left would be given compensation.

Translation, they can be kidnapped for use as human shields and slave labor or the Ukrainians will kill all the civilians while they retreat.

Imagine how much not think the sheeple must have for them to be admitting, out loud, that they need to pay people to leave a warzone and no one bats an eye... lol criical thinking is dead.

But Russia is losing and running out of ammo, tanks, planes, shells, missiles, bombs, money, ...?