Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned the Donbas area is “totally destroyed” and described unrelenting Russian attacks at the easternmost town nonetheless below Ukrainian regulate, Severodonetsk.
“There’s hell, and that’s now not an exaggeration,” Zelensky mentioned in a video deal with close to nighttime Thursday, concerning the wreck in Donbas, including that “brutal and completely unnecessary bombing” is crippling Severodonetsk and different towns within the east.
Zelensky and native officers, in separate posts Friday, mentioned no less than 12 folks had been lifeless and dozens wounded in Severodonetsk, a town within the Luhansk area the place about 100,000 folks lived sooner than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
Severodonetsk has develop into a big Russian point of interest prior to now day, and a few observers concern a siege very similar to the gutting of Mariupol. Officers, posting on Telegram, have mentioned Russia has destroyed a number of residential constructions there. Up to now, two folks had been reported killed and 9 injured in an assault on a medical institution.
Luhansk’s regional governor, Serhiy Haidai, wrote on Friday that “the Russians are shelling Severodonetsk very strongly.”
“As much as 15,000 folks stay in bomb shelters,” Haidai and Alexander Stryuk, head of town’s military-civil management, mentioned in a Telegram put up. “Wells within the previous districts of town had been introduced again into use to supply folks with water. All of the cellular verbal exchange towers have had their energy misplaced. Seventy % of high-rise constructions are destroyed or broken; a lot of them should be demolished and new ones constructed.”
The Washington Put up has now not been in a position to independently check the assaults.
“That is what’s going to be certified because the genocide of the Ukrainian folks and for which the occupiers will indisputably be dropped at justice,” Zelensky mentioned.
