In its two-week attack on Severodonetsk, Russia has advanced to encircle two-thirds of the Ukrainian resistance’s entrenched positions.
In their current formations, sources from Kyiv said that Ukrainian troops could be detained for several weeks.
Moscow’s forces launched constant artillery attacks to pave the way for ground attacks.
Ukrainian authorities have stressed that their troops would have a high chance of clinging to the territory if given missile systems to destroy Russian guns.
Sergei Haidai, Luhansk’s regional governor, said the Russians were using “the same tactics over and over again.”
“They fired for several hours – three, four, five hours – in a row and then attacked,” he added.
“Those who attack die. Then the shelling and the attack follow again, and so on, until they break through somewhere. “
In a ground attack, 32-year-old Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, a journalist working for French television station BFMTV, was killed while covering a humanitarian bus leaving the city.
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