Sievierodonetsk bombing so intense, casualties cannot be assessed, officials say
Source: The Guardian
Russian forces are hitting largest city in Donbas still held by Ukraine ‘200 times an hour’, causing huge damage
Officials in eastern Ukraine say Russian shelling of Sievierodonetsk has been so intense that it has not been possible to assess casualties and damage, as Moscow closes in on the largest city still held by Ukraine in the Donbas.
“The situation has extremely escalated,” Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk region, said on Sunday. Witnesses said the city was being bombed “200 times an hour” as Russian forces try to cut off reinforcement lines and surround its remaining defenders.
Ukrainian authorities have described conditions in Sievierodonetsk as reminiscent of Mariupol, the southern port city that fell on 20 May after almost three months of relentless assault.
The intensified fighting came as Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visited Ukrainian troops on the front lines in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, in his first official appearance outside the Kyiv area since the start of the war. “You risk your lives for us all and for our country,” Zelenskiy told soldiers there.
He added that Russian shelling has destroyed all of the city’s critical infrastructure and more than two-thirds of its housing stock. Taking Sievierodonetsk was Russia’s “principal aim” right now, the president said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/29/sievierodonetsk-bombing-so-intense-casualties-cant-be-assessed-officials-say
The genocidal butcher is at it again.
Gee, if we would have only listened to the appeasers and given the land to pooty, he'd be satisfied.
Ukraine must have huge quantities of heavier, high quality weapons now, or we can kiss much or all of the country goodbye.
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