War in Ukraine: The separatists are coming to the borders of Lugansk, says Moscow – “Fantasies” responds Kyiv

Pro-Russian separatists in the east Ukraine advanced to the borders of the region Luganskaccording to Moscow, as the Russia continues operations to occupy the entire eastern sector of the country, one of its main objectives of war launched on February 24th.

According to the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, the small town Popasnawhere fierce battles were fought as before, “Cleared” by Ukrainian forces.

Moscow has already stated that its goal is to seize the whole of Lugansk from the hands of Ukrainian forces.

THE Ukrainian governor of Serhiy Haidai district denies Russian announcement of advance, referring to “fantasy”. The Ukrainian military had to withdraw from Popasna, he admitted, but Russian forces have not broken through the defenses, he added via Telegram. It did not become clearer.

In the south, according to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, new Russian pounding on Azovstalthe factory that is the last stronghold of the Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, and in Odessa.

Strategic ports are located in both urban centers. From the Mariupol The road connecting eastern Ukraine with its peninsula also passes Crimeaannexed by Moscow in 2014.

Yesterday, Tuesday, the Ukrainian Orthodox Archbishop Onoufrios addressed appeal to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to allow, as a good Christian as he put it, the besieged in the Azovstal steel industry to leave, either to areas controlled by the Ukrainian authorities or to a third state. Ukrainian officials claim that about 100 civilians remain at the facility. Russian imgs say that in the vast factory are fortified 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers, far-right and foreign mercenaries, who have rejected the repeated offers of the Russian army to lay down their arms for a living.

The war, which is in its 11th week, has claimed the lives of at least 3,381 civiliansaccording to his human rights office UN in Ukraine, of which some 1,000 were killed in Mariupol alone.

The actual death toll among the civilians, however, is probably much heavier, as it is impossible to record them completely in the midst of hostilities.

According to the United Nationsthe conflict uprooted much of the population of Ukraine. The number of internally displaced people has reached eight million, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM); while 5.9 million people have sought refuge abroad, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Source: News Beast

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