Soldiers in the heavily-bombarded Severodonetsk and Lugansk regions of eastern Ukraine described it as “hell,” but Kyiv insisted that they would hold out “for as long as necessary.”
Despite fierce resistance from the outgunned Ukrainian military, Moscow’s troops have been battering eastern Ukraine for weeks and are slowly making progress.
The twin city of Lysychansk is currently under increased attack as President Vladimir Putin’s forces strengthen their hold on the strategically significant city of Severodonetsk in the Donbas.
Sergiy Gameday, the head of the Lugansk region, which encompasses both cities, posted on Telegram that “the Russian army is… absolutely destroying everything” in Lysychansk.
After four months of shelling in Severodonetsk, across the Donets river, he subsequently remarked, “It’s absolute hell out there.”
He continued, “Our boys are holding their positions and will keep holding on as long as necessary.”
Separatists who supported Russia said they were close to encircling Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.
An officer in the separatist army of Lugansk named Andrei Marochko said on Russian state media that “during the past few days, great work has been completed.”
Ukrainian women have been practising urban warfare with weapons in Zaporizhzhia, southeast Ukraine.
By seizing the two cities, Moscow would have authority over all of Lugansk and be able to advance deeper into the Donbas.
Moscow is attempting to annex a sizable portion of eastern Ukraine after being driven from Kyiv and other regions of the country following their invasion in February.
However, there is still daily bombardment in other areas of the nation.
Five people were killed by Russian shelling in the northern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday, but on Wednesday it was almost completely vacant, according to AFP reporters.
A young lady in a park close to the opera house named Leyla Shoydhry described the scene as “extremely awful.”
She remarked, “Last night, as I was sleeping, the building next to mine collapsed from the shelling.”
Most locals had left the city, according to Roman Pohuliay, a 19-year-old wearing a pink sweater.
He declared, “Only the grannies are left.”
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, charged the Russian army with a “brutal and deceitful” bombardment in the eastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday, where the governor reported 15 fatalities for the day.
The Russian defence ministry claimed responsibility for a missile strike that it said resulted in the deaths of many Ukrainian soldiers in the southern city of Mykolaiv during a briefing on Wednesday.
According to Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych, the strike hit two businesses and a school, causing a fire that the authorities were unable to put out.
As of June 22, 0700 GMT/AFP, a map of Ukraine displays the location of its armed troops.
As Russian soldiers drew closer, women began practising using Kalashnikov assault rifles in urban battle in Zaporizhzhia, the country’s capital.
Ulyana Kiyashko, 29, said after navigating a makeshift battle zone in a basement, “When you can do something, it’s not so scary to have a machine gun in your hands.”
An “outrageous lack of care to differentiate and protect civilians” throughout the Ukraine war, according to testimony compiled by relief organisation Doctors Without Borders.
It stated that the majority of the patients it has evacuated by rail attributed a variety of horrifying injuries to Russian or Russian-backed forces.
Russian missile attacks hit two-grain storage facilities in the southern city of Mykolaiv, according to operators Bunge and Viterra.
The ship departs from Mariupol
The Rostov region, which borders Ukraine, was hit by two drones on Wednesday, according to Russian officials, producing an explosion and a fire but no injuries.
A senior US official in Washington said President Joe Biden and other Group of Seven leaders meeting this weekend in Germany will announce new measures to punish Russia for the invasion. This will take place away from the battlefield.
In a dispute with EU member Lithuania over the nation’s limitations on rail trade to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, Moscow summoned Brussels’ ambassador.
The region, which borders Lithuania and Poland, is about 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) from Moscow.
Lithuania claims that by preventing the import of goods from Russia, it is simply upholding sanctions imposed on Moscow by the entire European Union.
In NATO, which views an attack against one member as an attack on all, the United States made plain its support for Lithuania as an ally.
Germany additionally pleaded with Russia to refrain from “violating international law” by retaliating against Lithuania.
A Turkish cargo ship departed the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol on the Ukrainian shore of the Sea of Azov on Wednesday as well.
For weeks, Moscow and Ankara have been negotiating to transport millions of tonnes of food to Africa and the Middle East from the conflict zone.
However, it was unclear right away whether the Azov Concord was transporting wheat.
Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Nations would hold four-way talks “in the coming weeks,” according to the Turkish defence ministry. According to the news, the meeting could take place the following week.
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