The mayor of this important region in the Donbass basin, Oleksandr Striuk, announced today that the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk in the eastern part of the country has been “fully occupied” by the Russian army after weeks of fierce fighting.
“The city is completely occupied by the Russians,” Striuk said a day after Ukrainian authorities announced that troops were withdrawing from the city to defend neighboring Lysychansk.
Not long ago, pro-Russian separatists announced the takeover of the Azot chemical industrial complex in Severodonetsk and the “evacuation” of 800 civilian refugees there.
The separatists also announced that their forces and the forces of the Russian army had entered Lysychansk, where “street fighting” took place.
source: Noticias
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