Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fresh onslaught in Ukraine’s Donbas has obliterated the eastern region and turned it into “hell,” according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who accused Moscow of indiscriminate bombing in the Russia-Ukraine War.
Russia is employing massed artillery and armour to try to grab more land in the Donbas, which includes the Donetsk and Luhansk territories, which Moscow claims on behalf of pro-Russian separatists, after failing to take Ukraine’s capital since beginning a full-scale invasion in February.
He said that 12 people were killed in the “brutal and completely pointless bombardment” of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk area on Thursday.”
Strikes are ongoing in the Odesa region and throughout central Ukraine. He declared, “The Donbas is completely destroyed”.” This is a calculated and criminal endeavour to murder as many Ukrainians as possible while also destroying as many homes, social facilities, and businesses as possible.”
Russian forces are stopping residents in Donbas from fleeing to Ukrainian-controlled territory, according to the Ukrainian defence ministry.
The last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the smaller of the two territories that make up the Donbas combat zone is Severodonetsk and its sister city Lysychansk.
Russian forces have encircled the two towns, which are separated by a river that marks the war’s central front, and are bombing them in an attempt to wear down resistance and deprive people of supplies.
Residents who remain in the now-ghostly city are scared to venture further than a few feet from their home door.
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