“The Russian army massively bombs Lysychansk with cannons, missiles, aerial bombs, missile launchers (…). They destroy everything,” said Sergei Gaidai, governor of the Lugansk region, in the Donbas mining basin.
In addition, the Russian army already occupies two thirds of Severodonetsk, separated from Lysychansk by the Donets River.
“Our guys are holding their positions and will continue to hold as long as it takes,” Gaidai said, adding that Severodonetsk was experiencing “hell.”
A representative of the pro-Russian separatists who have controlled part of Donbas since 2014 said the siege on Ukrainian forces was closing in the two twin cities. “Pretty soon, the groups [ucranianos] Lysychansk and Severodonetsk will be surrounded,” Andrei Marochko told Russian state television.
In Lysychansk, a Russian attack left a huge hole in a police station and damaged a nearby apartment block., indicated AFP reporters. Authorities reported that 20 police officers were injured.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed responsibility for an attack in Mikolaiv, further south, that left several Ukrainian soldiers dead.
The bombardment reached two companies, a school and caused a fire, according to the mayor of this Ukrainian town, Oleksandr Senkevuch.
Russian authorities claimed that two Ukrainian drones had bombed an oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov region, which borders Ukraine, without causing any casualties.
One of the largest oil refineries in southern Russia on fire, after being attacked by two “kyiv drones”, risks fueling a new escalation of the conflict, the attack denounced by Moscow on the Novoshakhtinsk facility in the region from Rostov, a few kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
A dynamic still under investigation, which led to the pilotless vehicles that were traveling through the establishment crashing, as seen in a video broadcast on social networks. What fuels the suspicions is the fact that the refinery is owned by a company linked to Oksana Marchenko, the wife of the pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, arrested in Ukraine on charges of high treason.
For Russia it is one of the hardest blows also on a symbolic level, given the deceived permeability of its air defense system. According to the governor of Rostov, Vasily Golubev, “remains of the drones” were found in the area and, after a couple of hours in which the activities of the refinery were blocked, the fire was extinguished.
Source: Ambito
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