The Russian army has entered Sievierodonetsk, in eastern Ukraine, which it is attacking with its air force, Luhansk region governor Serguiï Gaïdaï said on Monday.
The latest shooting in the town killed two civilians and injured five others, Gaidai said, citing the fighting. very fierce and a very difficult situation for Ukrainians in this city that had 100,000 inhabitants before the war.
Unfortunately I have bad news, the protagonist has entered the cityhe said on television.
The nearby town of Lysytchansk is still in the hands of Ukrainian forces and the evacuation of civilians is underway, the governor said.
Sievierodonetsk is the last major city in the Luhansk region still outside the control of Russian forces. If it collapses, which seems inevitable, the city is almost surrounded, Russia will be able to concentrate on conquering the latter parts of the Donetsk region.
Russia’s head of diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, reiterated on French television channel TF1 that free Donbass is Moscow’s absolute priority, which the Kremlin has recognized as independence republics of the people from Luhansk and Donetsk.
Since its offensives against kyiv and Kharkiv failed, the Russian army has returned to its previous tactics, already used in Chechnya or Syria, of crushing enemy towns under a deluge of bombs and gunfire. .
they [les soldats russes] bombard for several hours in a row, for three, four, five hours, then launch the attack. The attackers are killed. So they started bombing again and attacking again, and so on until they got through.said the governor on Ukrainian television.
Source: Radio-Canada
