The fight continues in eastern Ukraine for control of the Donbass region where Russian forces have threatened the large city of Sievierodonetsk, which was relentlessly shot down after the occupation – according to Moscow – of the main locality of Lyman.
Russia has done everything possible to occupy Sievierodonetsk or prevent any communication between the region and Ukrainesaid this Saturday night in his Telegram account Sergii Gaïdaï, the governor of the Lugansk region.
The Russians have brought many means to invade the city but have not yet done soassured for his part the mayor of Sievierodonetsk, Olexander Stryuk. We think the city will fight backhe insisted.
The continuous shelling greatly complicating the city’s supply – especially of drinking water -, which has been without electricity for more than two weeks, he wrote Saturday night in his Telegram account. The activity of humanitarian aid center of the city was suspended, he said.
The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov claimed for his part on Saturday night in the Telegram that Sievierodonetsk is under our full control […] The city was liberated.
Capture of the City of Lyman
A little further west, the Russian Ministry of Defense on Saturday confirmed the takeover of the main locality of Lyman – which opens the way to the main cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, in the Donbass.
President Zelensky recognized that the situation in this region of Donbass [était] very difficult, with intensive artillery and missile strikes. But he felt that if the occupiers thought that Lyman and Sievierodonetsk would be theirs, they were mistaken. Donbass will be Ukrainian.
After the unsuccessful offensives in Kyiv and Kharkiv (northeast) at the start of the war, Russian forces focused on eastern Ukraine, with the stated goal of completely seizing the partially controlled Donbass since 2014 by pro- Russian separatists supported by Moscow.
Source: Radio-Canada
