“Au 134e day of the total war, all attention remains focused on the region of Luhansk, whose occupiers are trying to seize in its entirety. As well as the heavy fighting in the Donetsk region”, comment daily online Ukrainian Truth. Even if the day before “Le 133e day, for the first time, underline the American specialists, Russia has not proclaimed a ‘victory’”.
After the capture of Sievierodonetsk and Lyssychansk, the Ukrainian media now expect the Russians to focus their efforts on the two major cities of Donetsk Oblast still in the hands of troops from kyiv. “The Russians relentlessly pounded Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, thus indicates Oukraïnsky Tyjden, probably using [lance-roquettes multiples] Smertch, there are many civilians killed and buildings destroyed.”
According to the weekly, the Russian advance in Lyssytchansk would have been a costly affair, with no real consequences for the Ukrainian forces, which would have “succeeded in withdrawing all the troops that remained in the city as well as all the civilians who wished to be evacuated. This withdrawal would have been carried out on the night of June 29 to 30. A “difficult mission, because only one road was open, towards Siversk, under the permanent fire of the Russians”.
“Finally, the morning of the 1is July, everyone arrived in Siversk. There was some