In the neighboring city of Lisichansk, three civilians, including a six-year-old boy, were killed in a bomb blast.
Russian troops drove him out Ukrainian army from its center Severonetska key city in eastern Ukraine for control of which the two armies have been fighting for weeks, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced today.
“With the help of artillery, the enemy launched an attack on Severodonetsk, achieving partial success and expelling our units from the city center. The hostilities continue “the army said in a post on Facebook.
Sergiy Gaidai, the governor of Luhansk – whose Sheverodonetsk is the administrative center for the section controlled by the Ukrainian authorities – confirmed that Ukrainian forces had been driven out of the city center.
“Street battles continue … the Russians continue to destroy the city”, he wrote this morning in a post on Facebook, uploading photos of buildings destroyed or in flames. The Russian bombardment targeted the Nitrogen chemical plant, where civilians have taken refuge, and also hit water treatment plants in the city, he added.
In the neighboring city of Lisichansk, three civilians, including a six-year-old boy, were killed in a bomb blast in the past 24 hours, according to the governor.
The occupation of Severodonetsk will pave the way for Moscow to another major city in Donbass, Kramatorsk, an important step to dominate the entire region on the border with Russia, part of which has been under the control of pro-Russian separatists since 2014. .
