The Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine has been the scene of intense clashes between Russian and Ukrainian armies, the region’s governor Sergei Gaïdaï reported on Monday.
Intense fighting is taking place around Rubizhne and Bilogorivkahe reported on Monday. Flying, artillery and mortars were active there. There are many warriors on both sides.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it believed the fighting in Rubizhne was a prelude to an offensive in the towns of Sievierodonetsk and Lyman.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday that 60 people had been killed the previous day in Bilogorivka, when a Russian bomb dropped on a secondary school where they had taken refuge.
Governor Gaïdaï asked Ukrainians who have not yet fled the region to protect themselves from Russian strikes.
Now do not know what to expect from the enemy, what a horrible thing they can do. So get out on the streets as much as possible, stay in sheltershe said at the beginning of the day.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar also reported that the Russian army is still trying to advance into eastern Ukraine, where the situation remains. difficultaccording to him.
Further north, Russian troops continued to retreat around Kharkiv, the deputy minister also said.
Over the past few days, the Ukrainian counter-offensive led around the second city of Ukraine has caused significant developmentaccording to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington -based think tank.
No surrender is expected in Mariupol
In Mariupol, a martyred city in southeastern Ukraine, the Russian army is still launching attacks on the Azovstal metallurgical complex, where the last defenders of the port city are buried.
After the weekend evacuation of the last civilians hiding in the factory, the Ukrainian fighters who were still there certainly did not give up.
Surrender is not an option, because our lives are not interested in Russia. Leaving us alive didn’t matter to himsummed up Sunday Ilya Samoilenko, a lieutenant of the Azov regiment.
In southwestern Odessa, Ukrainian officials said Russia fired four cruise missiles at the city from the Crimea on Monday. No civilians were reported injured.
The governor of Mykolaiv, east of Odessa, also reported heavy shooting at night from Sunday to Monday.
The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier in its Telegram account that 200 targets had been hit in Ukraine on Sunday.
Source: Radio-Canada
