For example, the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievjerodonetsk has been under fire for days, with deaths and injuries.
“The Russians are wiping out Sieverodonetsk like Mariupol. Fighting is going on in the suburbs of the city,” Hajday said on the Telegram news channel. The governor complained of aerial bombardments in the region, and that Russia wanted to reduce the area to rubble. At the same time, he dismissed statements by Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that the Luhansk region was about to be completely taken over as “nonsense”. Shoigu no longer has an overview of the situation of his own armed forces.
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The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that the last Ukrainian militants at the Azov steel plant in Mariupol had surrendered – more than 2,000 in all. This means that the city is completely under Russian control, it said. The Ukrainian General Staff in Kyiv said the enemy had started demining the area around the port to make it operational again.
According to the General Staff, the Russian armed forces are still trying to gain complete control over the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in order to secure a land corridor to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. From the Russian point of view, the capture of Mariupol is considered an important partial success.
Ukrainian authorities also reported fresh Russian attacks in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. In the Kiev district of the megacity, the market was shot at on Friday evening. Several merchant pavilions burned down. The published photos of the heavy destruction were initially not verifiable.
Source: Nachrichten
