Russian troops fully occupy the city of East Ukraine, Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, both sides say, confirming the decline of the Kyiv’s biggest battlefield for more than a month after a few weeks of some of the most bloody battles of war.Ukraine called her retreat from the city as a “tactical withdrawal” to fight from a higher land in Lysychansk on the edge of the Siverskyi Donets river. Pro-Russian separatist said Moscow’s troops were now attacking Lysychansk.
The fall of Sieverseodonetsk – was once home to more than 100,000 people but now Russia’s biggest victory has been the biggest victory of the Port of Marieupol last month. This changes the battlefield in the East after weeks where the big advantage of Moscow in shooting only produces slow profits.Russia will now try to move forward and take more land in the opposite bank, while Ukraine will hope that the price paid by Moscow to capture the ruins of the small city will make Russian troops vulnerable to counterattacks.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy swores in the video address that Ukraine will win the missing cities, including Sievierodonetsk. But acknowledging the emotional victim of war, he said: “We do not have a long feeling that it will survive, how many blows, losses, and efforts that will be needed before we see the victory is on the horizon.”This city is now under the full occupation of Russia,” said Mayor Sievierodonetsk Oleksandr Stryuk on national television. “They try to set their own orders, as far as I know they have pointed out a kind of commander.”
Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, told Reuters that Ukraine was doing “tactical merging” by withdrawing his troops out of Sievierodonetsk.Russia uses tactics … used in Mariupol: wiping the city from the face of the earth, “he said.” Given the condition, holding defense in the ruins and open fields is no longer possible. So Ukraine forces left for a higher place to continue defense operations. “The Russian Ministry of Defense said “as a result of successive operations” Russian troops have built full control over Sievierodonetsk and Borivske City nearby.
However, not long after that, Ukraine’s shooting from outside Sievierodonetsk forced Russian troops to suspend the evacuation of people from chemical plant there, the Russian Tass News Agency quoted local police who worked with Russian separatist authorities.Oleksiy Aestovych, a senior advisor to Zelenskyy, said that some Ukraine special forces were still in Sievierodonetsk to direct artillery shots against Russia. But he did not mention the forces that put up direct resistance.The Russian Interfax news agency quoted representatives of pro-Russian separatist fighters who said Russian and Pro-Russian troops had entered Lysychansk across the river and fought in urban areas there.
Russia also launched a missile attack in Ukraine on Saturday. At least three people were killed and the others might have been buried in the debris in Sarny City, around 185 miles (300 km) to the west of Kyiv, after the rocket crashed into cash and car repair facilities, said local local military head of the local administration. Russia has denied targeting civilians. Kyiv and West said Russian troops had committed war crimes against civilians.
Trying to tighten the screws in Russia, US President Joe Biden and the group of other seven leaders who attended the peak meeting in Germany starting on Sunday will approve the ban on new gold imports from Russia, the source who is familiar with the problem told Reuters. ‘It’s horror’In the city of Pokrovsk Donbas controlled by Ukraine, Elena, an old woman in a wheelchair from Lysychansk, including between dozens of refugees who arrived by bus from the frontlines.”Lysychansk, that was horror, last week. Yesterday we could not accept it anymore,” he said. “I already told my husband if I died, please bureer me behind the house.”
When the largest land conflict in Europe since the second world war entered the fifth month, Russian missiles also fell in the western, north and south of the country.Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops to the border on February 24, releasing the conflict that had killed thousands and revoked millions of people. It also triggered the energy and food crisis that shook the global economy.
Because Russian troops were defeated in an attack on the capital of Kyiv in March, he had shifted focus to Donbas, an Eastern region consisting of Luhanansk and Donetsk Provinces. Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk are the last Ukrainian main fortress in Luhansk.Russia crosses the river which is valid in the last few days and has advanced towards Lysychansk, threatening to circle Ukraine in the area.The arrest of Sieverseodonetsk is likely to be seen by Russia as a justification for its change from the beginning, an effort that failed on “lightning warfare” to an endless attack, grinding using a large -magnificent artillery in the east.
Moscow said Luhanansk and Donetsk, where he had supported the rebellion since 2014, were independent countries. This demanded that Ukraine surrender the entire area of the two provinces for separatist administration.Ukraine officials have never had many hopes to hold Sievierodonetsk but have tried to demand a high enough price to be tiring Russian army.Ukraine’s main general, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi wrote in a telegram application that just arrived, the sophisticated Himars rocket system that was supplied by the US is now mobilized and regarding the target in the Ukraine section occupied by Russia. Read moreAsked about the potential counterattack in the south, Budanov, the Head of Ukraine Military Intelligence, told Reuters that Ukraine had to begin to see the results of “August”.
Russian missiles also attacked elsewhere overnight. “48 Cruise missiles. At night. In all Ukraine,” said Ukraine President’s Advisor Mykhailo Podolyak on Twitter. “Russia is still trying to intimidate Ukraine, causing panic.”The Governor of the LVIV region in West Ukraine said six missiles were fired from the black sea at the base near the border with Poland. Four reached the target but two were destroyed.This war has a big impact on the global economy and European security, raising the price of gas, oil and food, encouraging the European Union to reduce dependence on Russian energy and encourage Finland and Sweden to seek NATO membership.
