More than 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war are detained in the self-proclaimed “People’s Republic of DonetskAs reported today by the TASS agency, citing a leader of the pro-Russian separatists, who also claimed that the separatist forces have taken full control of the strategically important city of Liman, in the east Ukraine.
Reuters and Agence France-Presse, however, were unable to confirm this information from an independent img.
At the same time, official Ukrainian figures show that, since the start of the war, approx 1,500 people have been killed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sheverodonetskwhere the battles with the Russian forces are now concentrated.
Among them are soldiers and civilians, as the head of the local military administration, Oleksandr Stryuk, said today.
Many of its inhabitants have also left the city. Of the 130,000 inhabitants who lived there before the war, only about one-tenth remains.
Sheverodonnetsk in Luhansk Oblast has been under pressure from Russian troops and pro-Russian separatist fighters for weeks. On May 6, Striuk announced that the city was “almost encircled.”
Sheverodonetsk, according to the APE-MPE, is one of the most important cities in this area still under Ukrainian control, as is the city of Lisichank.
The governor of Luhansk, Sergei Gaidai, said five people had been killed by Russian bombardment of residential areas in Sheverodonetsk in the past 24 hours.
Source: News Beast
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