Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday (13) that the “human cost” of the conflict over Severodonetsk, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine that the Russians have not fully met so far, is “scary”.

“The human cost of this war is too high for us. It’s just terrible,” Zelensky said in a daily speech to Ukrainians broadcast by Telegram.

“The war in Donbass will definitely go down in military history as one of the fiercest wars in Europe,” said the Ukrainian president.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Thursday that “up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers” were killed and “500 injured” in clashes with the Russian army every day.

Zelensky announced on June 1 that the army was losing “60 to 100 soldiers” per day. “We are facing an absolute evil,” he added.

On Monday, the governor of the Lugansk region, Sergei Gaidai, said that “70 to 80 percent of the city” was occupied by Russians, adding that three bridges connecting Severodonetsk with the neighboring city of Lysychansk were “destroyed”. . . .