Russian forces invaded eastern Ukraine city of Severodonetsk and bombing the area where hundreds of Civilians were sheltering, and he’s Ukrainian official On Monday, a scene that reflects the brutality of Moscow capture of Mariupol last Month.
Ukraine has issued increasingly urgent appeals for more Western weapons for help Defense of Severodonetsk, which Kyiv says can hold key for the result of The battle for control of Eastern Donbass region and the future a path of the war.
Russian forces captured most of of Severodonetsk, with crushed parts of The city in one of The deadliest attack since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, victory there is possible give They have the momentum in wider battle for control over Donbass in Ukraine region.
On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles have destroyed A large amount of weapons and military equipment in Donbass region, including some sent by the United States and European countries. Ministry also He said high resolution air- Missiles hit a base near Odakne railway station, hitting equipment which were handed over to the Ukrainian forces.
while, in A report unconfirmed by the Ukrainian sideA Russian-backed separatist said that last bridge in city It was destroyed on Sunday, a virtual siege of the Ukrainian defenders inside.
“They have two options: also follow example of their colleague soldiers and surrender, or dieRussian RIA news The agency quoted separatist spokesman Edward Basurin as saying. “They have no one else option. “
The governor of the region, Sergey Gaday, said on Sunday evening last Transit over The Donets River was still standing after there was another bridge destroyed earlier in today.
The third bridge works, but the condition is of The bridge threatens: it is half-destroyedNo way for trucks for move on He said “.
On Monday, he said, the fighting was raging in The city where Ukrainian troops were defending building by building.
“The battles So fierce that the fight for Not just a street but for height one rise building Can last for days,” he said on social media.
Russian artillery fire also it rained down on Azot chemical plant where hundreds of Governor Jedi said civilians were taking shelter of Luhansk region in Eastern Ukraine, which includes Severodonetsk.
Before Mariupol fell to Russia last month, hundreds of Ukrainian civilians are seriously injured soldiers trapped for weeks in Azovstal steel mills. Ukrainian officials say cholera is now spreading among the remaining residents due to the burial of bodies in rubble from destroyed Residential buildings.
Gaidai estimated that Russian forces now control about 70%. of Severodonetsk, and they said that they were destroying it “quarter by quarter” in one of The deadliest attack since invasion It was launched on February 24.
The Russians keep storming cityAnd it has a great advantage in The artillery paid somewhat back Ukrainian soldiers said Jedi on Monday.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in His nighttime video title on Sunday that Russia was trying to flow military Keeps in Donbass.
“The key tactical goal of The invaders did not changed: they press in Severodonetsk, fierce fighting continues there – in the literal sense of the word for every meter,” Zelensky said on Sunday also He said the attacks that resulted in Child victims create a lasting image of Russia in The eyes of the rest of The world instead of the images that Moscow was trying to photograph project.
Not Peter the Great, nor Lev Tolstoy, but children Wounded and dead in “Russian attacks,” he said. in In clear reference to the statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin last week compared to Moscow military campaign To the eighteenth of the Russian Emperor Peter the Great-century Invade of territory occupied by Sweden.
Russia denied targeting civilians. Putin launched what he called “special Operation “to restore Russian security and” to “discredit” its southern neighbor Ukraine and its Western allies call This is a baseless excuse for a invasion raised concerns of wider struggle in Europe.
More than 5 million people They fled Ukraine, thousands died and cities died reduced to the ruins in biggest attack on European country since World War II.
The war ignited a spark global The energy and food crisis disrupted the supplies of gas, oil and grain from Russia and Ukraine.
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After failing to take the capital KyivMoscow has turned its attention to expanding control in Donbass, where pro-Russian separatists have controlled territory since 2014.
In Severodonetsk last pocket of Ukrainian land contract in Luhansk regionthe Ukrainian and Russian forces suffered heavy losses, Roman Vlasenko, head of Severodonetsk region administration of local television.
Our children are holding on Vlasenko said city It was without normal communications and services for Month.
It was the Russian bombing hit Azot . chemical plant area Three times said Governor Luhansk Gaidai.
“About 500 civilians remain on the reasons of nitrogen plant in Severodonetsk, 40 of they children. Sometimes military He managed to evacuate someone,” adding that the remaining bridge out of The city To the west was vulnerable.
“If after new Bridge bombing and collapse city will really cut off. he will not be there way of Leaving Severodonetsk in A vehicle, Gaidai said, noting the imperfection of stood up-fire agreement or agreement on evacuation corridors.
Jedi Twin said city of Lysychansk was across the river to the west also Bombed by Russian forces, a 6-year-old was killed there.
Reuters can not independently confirm This Account.
In Pokrovsk, southwest of Severodonetsk, women’s children And the elderly, some in Wheelchairs, they boarded the only train evacuation people on Saturday from the conflict area to near safety in Far Lviv, near the border with Poland.
“We held on until the last Wait a minute, we didn’t want To leave, but life forced us “Lyuba,” Lyuba, a woman from Lyschansk, told Reuters TV as she waited. for The train to leave. “We’re leaving, we don’t know Where and to whom, but we will leave. ”
Sunday, Ukrainian general Staff General Valery Zaluzhny said head of The Ukrainian Armed Forces have spoken to General Mark Milley, the highest rank in the United States military Repeat the request for more Heavy artillery systems.
Moscow criticized the United States and other countries for Send weapons to Ukraine, threaten to strike new Targets if the West provides them with a long range of missiles.
