Russian attacks set a curtain of fire on Tuesday in areas of eastern Ukraine where outbreaks of resistance deny Moscow’s full military control of the region, almost four months after the Kremlin unleashed its invasion.
“Everything that can burn today is on fire,” Sergei Haidai, governor of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, told the Associated Press.
Russia’s war has raised concerns about Ukraine’s food supplies to the rest of the world and Russia’s gas supplies, as well as raises security concerns in Western Europe.
Currently, the Russian military controls about 95 percent of the Luhansk region. But Moscow has been fighting for weeks to take it completely, despite having additional troops and a huge advantage in military assets.
“With the help of tactical movements, the Ukrainian army is strengthening the defense in the Luhansk region,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening video address. “It’s really the worst situation right now.”
In the city of Severodonetsk, the epicenter of the fighting, Ukrainian defenders detained the nitrogen chemical plant in the industrial suburbs. About 500 civilians are sheltering at the plant, and Haidai said Russian forces were turning the area into “ruins”.
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