Ukrainian regional officials reported that Russian forces were 'storming' Sievierodonetsk after trying unsuccessfully to encircle the city.
Sievierodonetsk, located about 143 kilometers south of the Russian border, emerged in recent days as the epicenter of Moscow's quest to capture all of Ukraine's industrial Donbas region. Russia also stepped up its efforts to take nearby Lysychansk, where civilians rushed to escape persistent shelling.
Civilians who reached the eastern city of Pokrovsk, about 130 kilometers south of Lysychansk, said they held out as long as they could before fleeing the Russian advance. Striuk has estimated that 1,500 civilians in the city, which had a prewar population of around 100,000, have died in Russian attacks since the beginning of the war, as well as from a lack of medicine and diseases that couldn't be treated.
The aide, Petro Andryushchenko, posted a photo on the Telegram messaging app of what he described as a"corpse dump." It showed bodies stacked alongside closed supermarket counters. On Saturday, he said, one civilian died and four were injured after a Russian shell hit a high-rise apartment building.
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