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War in Ukraine: Lisichansk police bury dozens of bodies in mass grave

Police buried at least 150 people in a mass grave in the eastern city of Lisichansk Of Ukraineannounced its governor LuhanskSerhiy Haidai, via Telegram.

He explained that these people would be buried regularly after war and added how The state of emergency forces the police to take on various roles that are not their responsibility, including that of the undertakers..

The mass grave contains victims of Russian artillery bombardment and people who died of natural causes, according to Haidai.

Video shows corpses in white bags with labels bearing their names as they are buried.

According to Haidai, Russian troops have occupied 95% of the Luhansk region, the situation is “very bad”.

The cities of Severodonetsk and Lysitshansk, which had a population of about 100,000 each before the war, remain in the hands of Ukrainian forces but have been bombed for days.

There are about 40,000 citizens left in the area, very few of whom want to leave despite the danger, always according to the governor.

Fighting approaches in Sheverodonetsk – “The situation is difficult”

Fighting with Russian forces has reached the Sheverodonetsk region, a city in eastern Ukraine where the situation is “very difficult”, said the governor of the region, Serhiy Haidai.

“Russian troops were pushed close enough to hit with mortars” in Sheverodonetsk, wrote in the Telegram application and added that the city “Just destroyed”.

He accused the Russian army of bombing the city “continuously” using multiple Smertch and Tornado rocket launchers, among others.. According to him, the bombs also target the Azot plant, where civilians have taken refuge in anti-aircraft shelters.

“The situation in the city is very difficult. “Fighting has been going on in the region for the last few days.” of Sheverodonetsk, said Haidai, who estimated that “Next week will be decisive”.

Severodonetsk has been under pressure from Russian troops and pro-Russian separatist fighters for weeks. On May 6, Mayor Alexander Stryuk announced that the city was “almost surrounded”.

Dozens of civilians have been killed in bombings there in recent weeks.

Sheverodonetsk as well as Lisichansk are among the important cities in this region. They are 80 km east of Kramatorsk, which has become the administrative center of Ukrainian Donbass since Moscow-backed separatists occupied the eastern part of this large coal basin in 2014.

Earlier, Reuters reported, citing the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, that Ukraine fights to retain control of critical highway in Sheverodonetsk.

Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanik told a news conference that there were alternative routes for supplying Ukrainian units in Sheverodonetsk, which is surrounded on three sides by Russian forces.

Motuzyanik said Russia’s goal was to encircle Ukrainian units everywhere in the city, as well as in neighboring Lisichank.


Source: News Beast

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