Ukraine-News: 17 dead after Russian rocket attack near Odessa

Ukraine-News: 17 dead after Russian rocket attack near Odessa

According to information from Kyiv, the situation around the city of Lysychansk, which is besieged by Russian troops, is getting worse:

Russian troops try to encircle Lysychansk

“The enemy is concentrating its main efforts on encircling the Ukrainian soldiers in Lysychansk from the south and west and establishing complete control over the Luhansk region,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report. Information from the combat zones can hardly be verified independently.

Lysychansk is the last major place in Luhansk Oblast still held by Ukrainian troops. the conquest of the area is one of the declared War Aims of Moscow. There is also fighting in the suburbs of the big city. The General Staff reports that the Russian attempt to bring part of the Bakhmut-Lysychansk supply route under control has failed.

At the same time they have Russian troops according to Ukrainian data, their increased military activity towards Kramatorsk. The city of Kramatorsk is the southern point of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk conurbation, which had around half a million inhabitants before the war.

Source: Stern

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