KYIV, June 13 — Russian troops swarmed into Sievierodonetsk, as their artillery pounded parts of the city where Ukrainian defenders mounted a desperate rearguard action in the fiercest fighting of a wider battle for control over Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
“Russians continue to storm the city, having a significant advantage in artillery they have somewhat pushed back the Ukrainian soldiers,” said Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region.Russian forces have taken most of Sievierodonetsk, having pulverised parts of the city in one of the bloodiest assaults since they invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Zelenskiy said attacks that resulted in child casualties had created a lasting image of Russia for the rest of the world.“Not Peter the Great, not Lev Tolstoy, but children injured and killed in Russian attacks,” he said, in an apparent reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks last week comparing Moscow’s military campaign to Russian emperor Peter the Great’s 18th century conquest of lands held by Sweden.
“Our boys are holding on but the conditions are tough,” he said. Vlasenko said the city had been without communications and normal services for a month.“About 500 civilians remain on the grounds of the Azot plant in Sievierodonetsk, 40 of them are children. Sometimes the military manages to evacuate someone,” he said.
Gaidai said Lysychansk was also being shelled by Russian forces, and a six-year-old child had been killed there.In Pokrovsk, south-west of Sievierodonetsk, women, children and elderly, some in wheelchairs, boarded the only train evacuating people on Saturday, at the start of a long journey from the conflict zone to safety in Lviv near the border with Poland.
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