The one thing clearly proven by this invasion once and for all is that most Ukrainians, including those in the east don't want to be part of Putin's authoritarian Russia. As for why there is now mandatory evacuation, it is because the Ukrainians wised up. They know anyone left in the occupied territories is going to be 'voluntarily' conscripted and used as canon fodder against the Ukrainian army.
In 100 Days, A Separatist Army In Ukraine Lost Half Its Troops
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/06/13/a-separatist-army-in-ukraine-lost-half-its-troops-in-100-days/?sh=b0efd13dbef1
“As for why there is now mandatory evacuation”
Ukrainian officials are also saying that heating systems have been widely destroyed, and won’t be fixed in time for Winter. The former Soviet Union had a lot of communal centralized heating systems (steam pipes and radiators), rather than every dwelling having their own heater.
Pure propaganda. I've seen video after video of the Russian troops being welcomed as liberators. And, why wouldn't they be in eastern Ukraine given its high ethnic Russian population?
The ethnic Russian population, for years, has been persecuted by neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists. Ukraine has used civilians in eastern Ukraine as human shields and killed if they tried to escape and now is launching missile and mine attacks on Donetsk. There is large volume of video from those in Ukraine testifying to all that.
You simply spewing lies. And, that makes you and your ilk a danger to our national security.
As Donald Trump said the other day, Ukraine should have been allowed to negotiate and should have agreed not to join NATO and let Crimea go.