Pokrovsk: A Ukrainian regional official warned Friday of worsening living conditions in a city captured by Russian forces two weeks ago. svierodonetsk Without water, electricity or a working sewage system, the bodies of the dead decompose in heated apartment buildings.
Governor Serhi Haidai said the Russians were opening artillery barrages indiscriminately as they tried to secure their gains in the east. UkraineLuhansk province. Moscow this week claimed full control of Luhansk, but the governor and other Ukrainian officials said their troops retained a small part of the province.
“Luhansk has not been completely captured, even though the Russians have put all their arsenals to achieve that goal,” Haidai told the Associated Press. “There is fierce fighting in several villages along the border of the region. The Russians are relying on tanks and artillery to advance, leaving scorched ground.”
Russia’s military, he said, “attacks every building they think may be a fortified position.” “They haven’t stopped by the fact that civilians are left there and they die in their homes and courtyards. They keep firing.”
Meanwhile, occupied Svyarodonetsk, “is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,” the governor wrote on social media. “The Russians have completely destroyed all vital infrastructure, and they are unable to repair anything.”
Luhansk is one of two provinces in the Donbass, an area of mines and factories where pro-Moscow separatists have fought Ukraine’s military for eight years and declared an independent republic that the Russian President Vladimir Putin It was recognized before sending troops to Ukraine.
After claiming full control of Luhansk, Putin He said the Russian army would have a chance to rest and regroup, but that other parts of eastern Ukraine were hit by continued bombardment. The Russian leader warned Kyiv that he should quickly accept Moscow’s terms or, in the worst case, remain.
“Everyone should know that broadly speaking, we haven’t started anything yet,” Putin said while speaking with Kremlin leaders.
Ukraine’s presidential office said on Friday that at least 12 civilians were killed and 30 others injured in Russian shelling in the past 24 hours. Two cities in Donetsk – the other in the Donbass province – experienced the heaviest barrage, killing six people and injuring 21.
In north-east Ukraine, four others were killed and nine wounded in Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city, where Russian shelling took place in residential areas.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry commenting on Putin’s ominous statement peskov Said that the Russian leaders were reacting to statements by Ukraine’s government and its Western allies to defeat Russia on the battlefield.
“Russia’s potential is so great that only a small part of it has been used in special military operations,” Peskov told reporters on Friday. “And therefore Western statements are completely absurd and simply add to the misery of the Ukrainian people.”
Governor Serhi Haidai said the Russians were opening artillery barrages indiscriminately as they tried to secure their gains in the east. UkraineLuhansk province. Moscow this week claimed full control of Luhansk, but the governor and other Ukrainian officials said their troops retained a small part of the province.
“Luhansk has not been completely captured, even though the Russians have put all their arsenals to achieve that goal,” Haidai told the Associated Press. “There is fierce fighting in several villages along the border of the region. The Russians are relying on tanks and artillery to advance, leaving scorched ground.”
Russia’s military, he said, “attacks every building they think may be a fortified position.” “They haven’t stopped by the fact that civilians are left there and they die in their homes and courtyards. They keep firing.”
Meanwhile, occupied Svyarodonetsk, “is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,” the governor wrote on social media. “The Russians have completely destroyed all vital infrastructure, and they are unable to repair anything.”
Luhansk is one of two provinces in the Donbass, an area of mines and factories where pro-Moscow separatists have fought Ukraine’s military for eight years and declared an independent republic that the Russian President Vladimir Putin It was recognized before sending troops to Ukraine.
After claiming full control of Luhansk, Putin He said the Russian army would have a chance to rest and regroup, but that other parts of eastern Ukraine were hit by continued bombardment. The Russian leader warned Kyiv that he should quickly accept Moscow’s terms or, in the worst case, remain.
“Everyone should know that broadly speaking, we haven’t started anything yet,” Putin said while speaking with Kremlin leaders.
Ukraine’s presidential office said on Friday that at least 12 civilians were killed and 30 others injured in Russian shelling in the past 24 hours. Two cities in Donetsk – the other in the Donbass province – experienced the heaviest barrage, killing six people and injuring 21.
In north-east Ukraine, four others were killed and nine wounded in Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city, where Russian shelling took place in residential areas.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry commenting on Putin’s ominous statement peskov Said that the Russian leaders were reacting to statements by Ukraine’s government and its Western allies to defeat Russia on the battlefield.
“Russia’s potential is so great that only a small part of it has been used in special military operations,” Peskov told reporters on Friday. “And therefore Western statements are completely absurd and simply add to the misery of the Ukrainian people.”