The Ukrainian army announced on Monday (13) that Russian troops managed to drive their troops out of the center of Severodonetsk, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine that has been the scene of conflict for several weeks.
“The enemy, with the support of artillery, attacked Severodonetsk with a partial victory and drove our troops out of the city centre. The conflict continues,” the army said in a statement on Facebook.
Sergei Gaiday, the governor of the Lugansk region, where Severodonetsk is the administrative center of the part controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, confirmed that Ukrainian forces had been driven out of the city centre.
“Street fighting continues … Russians continue to destroy the city,” he said in a Facebook message, along with images of buildings destroyed or burning.
Gaiday said three civilians, including a six-year-old boy, have been killed in bombings in the nearby city of Lysychansk in the past 24 hours.
“Ball Bait”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the recent clashes in Severodonetsk on Sunday night in a video message, calling it “very violent”. He claimed that Russia was mobilizing troops with little training and using their youth as “cannon fodder”.
For Moscow troops, taking control of Severodonetsk will pave the way for them to take command of Kramatorsk, another major city in the Donbass, and will be an important step towards conquering the entire border region with Russia, which is partly in the hands of pro-Russian groups. Separatists since 2014
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that “a large warehouse of anti-tank missile systems, portable air defense systems and howitzers supplied to the Kyiv regime by the United States and European countries” was destroyed in Chortkiv in western Ukraine.
According to the regional governor, 22 people were injured in the unusual attack in the west of the country, 140 km from the Romanian border.
In Mykolaiv, a major port city in southern Ukraine, the Russian advance was halted in the suburbs and the fighting escalated into trench warfare, according to an AFP team on the ground.
The Ukrainian army dug trenches to stop the Russian troops.
“The Russians talk a lot. There are many. They have a lot of weapons, old and new, but they are not soldiers,” 54-year-old Ukrainian brigade captain Sergei said on Sunday. said.
cluster bombs
At the diplomatic level, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, after promising to provide a response by the end of next week to Ukraine’s request to start the European Union (EU) accession process in Kiev on Saturday, agreed: On Sunday, the “difficulty” “It will be to leave the Council (Europe scheduled for 23 and 24 June) with a united stance that reflects the importance of this historic decision.”
At the same time, World Trade Organization (WTO) member states met on Sunday to find a solution to a possible global food crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has already caused prices to rise.
The meeting was particularly tense as delegates condemned the Russian offensive and cheered the Ukrainian representative. During the speech of the Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov, about 30 delegates left the hall.
According to a report by an independent think tank, the sanctions against Moscow did not prevent Russia from collecting $98 billion in fossil energy exports during the first 100 days of the war against Ukraine, mostly from the EU.
Amnesty International on Monday accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine and said hundreds of civilians were killed in relentless attacks by cluster bombs in Kharkov, many of which opened in the air and released thousands of small explosives that could reach wider areas. fields.
After an in-depth investigation, the human rights NGO claims to have found evidence of Russian forces using N210 and 9N235 cluster munitions and landmines in seven attacks on neighborhoods in Ukraine’s second largest city in the northeast of the country. fragmentation, two categories prohibited by international treaties.
source: Noticias
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