Fighting continues on Tuesday for the takeover of Severodonetsk, a key city in eastern Ukraine subjected to a deluge of Russian fire. “Our heroes hold their positions in Severodonetsk. Intense street fighting continues,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his final video address on Monday evening.
kyiv is struggling to cope with the influx of Russian troops into Severodonetsk, the largest city still in Ukrainian hands in the Lugansk region. The Russians “are in the process of destroying the city… As they have not managed to take it in one or two days, they are using air strikes, heavy artillery”, testified Monday evening Oleksandr Striouk, head of the administration of Severodonetsk, worrying that the evacuation of civilians has now become “virtually impossible”.