Ukrainian and Russian forces fought in “intense combat” on Tuesday in the streets of Severodonetsk, a strategic city in the eastern Donbass region, according to Kyiv officials.
“Our heroes are holding their positions in Severodonetsk. Intense street fighting continues,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday night, hours after warning that Russian troops were “more numerous and stronger”.
Severodonetsk mayor Oleksandr Striuk announced that “the situation is changing hourly” with “intense urban conflicts” in the city that Kiev controls in the Luhansk region.
The Ukrainian General Staff said in Tuesday’s first bulletin that this industrial city is “the heart of the enemy’s target”, and that plane and helicopter attacks in the neighboring Donetsk region were also noted.
The two eastern Ukrainian regions make up the Donbass mining basin, which since 2014 has been partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists and has been Moscow’s primary target as it has given up its conquest of Kiev.
“The main enemy efforts are focused on an attempt to completely control Severodonetsk and ‘block’ its troops in the nearby city of Lysychansk, Kiev,” the Ukrainian military said. Said.
“Our soldiers are in control of Severodonetsk, fighting continues in the east,” the military statement said.
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The invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 and the continued challenges Covid-19 has caused in supply chains are raising fears of a global food shortage.
The two warring countries were producing 30% of world wheat exports before the war. But Zelensky warned that Russia’s blockade of Black Sea ports has brought up to 25 million tons of grain to a standstill.
“In the autumn (in the northern hemisphere, in the spring in Brazil) the number can reach 70-75 million tons,” said the President.
In addition to the blockade, Ukrainian officials have condemned accusations that Russia is stealing grain reserves and selling them for their own interests, which US diplomacy finds “believable”.
Also, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Putin of trying to “blackmail” Western powers to end sanctions against Moscow.
“A Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea is preventing the Ukrainian harvest from going to its normal destinations,” Blinken said. Said. “This is all deliberate.”
Kyiv announced that it is discussing the creation of sea corridors with Turkey and the United Kingdom, and smaller quantities of exports by land with Poland or the Baltic States.
Also, Kyiv announced that its Armed Forces had caused the Russian fleet to retreat more than 100 kilometers from the coast.
source: Noticias
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