Ukrainian officers on Friday reported persisted heavy preventing within the Luhansk area, with an area army leader describing “fierce battles” for town of Severodonetsk.
In televised remarks, Oleksandr Striuk, head of the Severodonetsk town army management, stated: “There were fierce battles for town. We have now a scorching spot, the Mir lodge. On Would possibly 26 [Thursday], an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance workforce entered the Mir Resort. The [Ukrainian] Armed Forces resisted.”
A professional-Russian Telegram channel stated Russian forces had entered the lodge, which is within the north of Severodonetsk, and that boulevard preventing was once underway.
Serhiy Hayday, the top of the Luhansk regional army management, stated a Ukrainian operation to retake the lodge was once underway on Friday, however added: “We don’t seem to be but in regulate of the lodge. However we’re operating to pressure out the ruscists [Russian fascists].”
Hayday additionally described heavy shelling round Severodonetsk and neighboring Lysychansk as Russian forces driven from the path of the cities of Purdivka and Shchedryshchevo, announcing it had set the police station in Lysychansk on fireplace and broken about 50 structures within the house.
“Citizens of Severodonetsk have already forgotten what it’s like when town is silent for a minimum of part an hour,” Hayday stated.
“Russians are harassing residential neighborhoods incessantly. On Would possibly 26, 4 citizens of Severodonetsk have been killed via enemy shells within the previous districts of town. Two of them died on the identical time close to one high-rise construction. There’s injury to the housing inventory; 11 rental structures and one non-public space broken.”
