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Ukraine: About 10,000 civilians remain in Severodonetsk

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About 10,000 civilians are still in Sheverodonetsk, a key city in the battle of Donbass in eastern Ukraine, which the Russians have been trying to seize for weeks, Luhansk regional governor Sergei Gaidai said today.

“For almost four months, they (the Russians) have been dreaming of taking control of Sheverodonetsk, where out of 100,000 inhabitants, about 10,000 are still there, not counting the victims,” ​​said the Luhansk governor, who is in Sheverodonetsk, in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

According to him, “the Russian army is losing hundreds of warriors, but it finds reserves and continues to destroy Sheverodonetsk.” However, “the military is defending us,” Gaidai said.

Sheverodonetsk, where street fighting has been taking place, has been under constant bombardment for weeks. The three bridges connecting it to the Ukrainian-controlled neighboring city of Lisichansk have now been destroyed.

Four killed in Russian airstrike in Sumi, north.

Four people were killed and six were injured overnight by rockets fired during a Russian airstrike on a suburb of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy, local governor Dmitry Zivitsky said today.

He did not specify the purpose of the Russian raid, which took place in the suburb of Sad.

Zivitsky added that the Dobropilia region, near the border with Russia, was also hit by a rocket at 05:00 local time today, after 26 mortar shells fired from the Russian side of the border.

The main bridges over the Siverski Donets River have probably been destroyed

The British Ministry of Defense announced today that all the main bridges over the Siversky Donetsk River, which connect the city of Sheverodonetsk – a key city for the battle of Donbass in eastern Ukraine – with territory controlled by Ukrainian forces , have probably been destroyed and noted that after that the Russian forces will have to cross the river under fire or advance their formations that are on the sides and are stuck.

Ukraine has probably managed to withdraw a large percentage of its combat troops, which initially resisted in the city, adds the British Ministry of Defense.

“Russia’s combat force in Donbas is very likely to operate with increasingly ad hoc and severely understaffed groups,” the ministry said in a Twitter post.

After ousting them from the outskirts of Kiev in May, Russian forces focused their efforts on occupying all of Donbass, an industrial area where fighting has been concentrated in recent weeks in the largely devastated city of Severodonetsk.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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