Russian forces turn sights on Lysychansk in battle for eastern Ukraine

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Russian forces were fighting to achieve one of their strategic objectives in Ukraine on Monday as Moscow-backed separatists said they were pushing into Lysychansk, the last major city held by Ukrainian troops in eastern Luhansk province.

Lysychansk is the new focus of the war after its twin city Sievierodonetsk fell on Saturday, in a victory for Moscow’s campaign to seize the eastern provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk on behalf of pro-Russian separatists.

“Lysychansk was a horror the past week. Yesterday we could not take it any more. I already told my husband if I die, please bury me behind the house.” In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a wounded seven-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of a nine-storey apartment block. The girl’s father was killed in the strike, he said.

Other leaders from the G7 countries mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin as they gathered for a group photograph at the start of the three-day summit. The leaders gathered in the Bavarian Alps are also expected to discuss a possible price cap on Russian oil and efforts to tackle soaring global food and energy prices.On Sunday Russian missiles also struck the central city of Cherkasy, which had been largely untouched by bombardment, according to authorities who said one person was killed and five others wounded.

 

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