Ukraine pleads for air defence as Russia targets Lysychansk

Ukrainian service members fire a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launch system, near the town of Lysychansk, Luhansk region, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Picture: REUTERS/GLEB GARANICH

Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said the city was suffering “catastrophic” damage from the shelling and he urged civilians to urgently evacuate.Before his address to G7 leaders meeting in the resort of Schloss Elmau, Zelensky had stressed the urgency of the need for more arms. The leaders will make a long-term security commitment to provide Ukraine with financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support, for “as long as it takes”, including advanced weapons, the White House said.

These also include Ukrainian grain exports, now trapped in ports, which normally feed millions of people across the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. “Lysychansk, it was a horror, the last week,” said Elena, an elderly woman from the city who was among dozens of evacuees who arrived in the Ukrainian-held town of Pokrovsk by bus from frontline areas.In a setback for Ukraine, Russian forces won full control of Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk’s twin city on the eastern bank of the Siversky Donets River, over the weekend when Ukrainian troops pulled out after weeks of bombardments and street fighting.

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