The refinery, located almost seven kilometers west of the city, was fought over, the general staff in Kyiv said on Thursday. The Russian troops in the south have therefore advanced north. Fighting is already going on directly on the western and southern city limits.
The refinery has already been portrayed as completely conquered in the Russian media. Lysychansk is the last major town in the Luhansk region under Ukrainian control. In the end, he could only be supplied with supplies via a few supply routes from the west.
In the neighboring Donetsk region, there were Russian advances near Sloviansk and Bakhmut that could be repelled, the general staff said. Along the entire front line, Ukrainian positions would be continuously shelled with artillery and bombarded from the air. Artillery was also used by the Russian army in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Cherson regions. Such information from the war zone can only be checked with difficulty or not at all independently.
Source: Nachrichten
