BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Mayor Evelio Leonardia ordered the Public Employment Services Office (PESO) to conduct an inventory of Bacolodnon overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Ukraine, if any.
Bacolod City residents who have family members working in Ukraine and finding it difficult to contact them should immediately get in touch with the PESO at the Bacolod City Government Center, according to the mayor.
Invading Russian troops have entered Ukraine, sparking violence. Ukrainian forces are fighting back.
“Kadto lang sila sa PESO kay i-facilitate namun pati na pag-contact sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE),” Leonardia said.
Data from the DFA showed approximately 300 OFWs in Ukraine.
Russian forces have attacked oil and gas facilities in Ukraine, officials said on Sunday, as Western allies prepared new sanctions, including banishing key Russian banks from the main global payments system.
Ukrainian forces were holding off Russian troops advancing on the capital, Kyiv, said President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the biggest assault on a European state since World War II entered its fourth day.
Russian missiles found their mark, including a strike that set an oil terminal ablaze in Vasylkiv, southwest of Kyiv, the town’s mayor said. Blasts sent huge flames and billowing black smoke into the night sky, online posts showed.
There were also reports of heavy fighting near Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, in the northeast, where Russian troops blew up a natural gas pipeline, a Ukrainian state agency said. The gas blast there sent a mushroom cloud up into the darkness.
“The enemy wants to destroy everything,” said the mayor of Vasylkiv, Natalia Balasinovich. (With a report from Reuters/PN)
