After bloody battles, Ukraine battle will finish with diplomacy, Zelensky vows in anniversary interview

Not less than six individuals have been killed in Russian assaults on town of Severodonetsk in Ukraine’s Luhansk area up to now day, the top of the regional navy administration stated Saturday.

The useless embrace two individuals sheltering in a college basement, Serhiy Hayday stated, including that three individuals had additionally been wounded when Russians fired on the varsity.

“Two individuals died on the spot, three extra had been hospitalized. Two killed and one wounded are members of the identical household,” Hayday stated in a press release on Telegram.

Residents of Severodonetsk had been hiding because the starting of the battle, based on Hayday.

Two girls had been killed by Russian shelling in Lysychansk and Privillia, and a person and a girl died close to their home in Severodonetsk, he stated, with out specifying how they died.

The Russians “have thrown all their forces and efforts into the assault on Severodonetsk and reducing off the Lysychansk-Bakhmut route, in order that we will’t evacuate individuals, ship the humanitarian help or ship any provides or ammunition to our defenders,” the official added.

Luhansk is one among two areas of Ukraine that has been partly managed by Russian-backed separatists since 2014, together with Donetsk. The newest section of the Russian invasion contains makes an attempt to take full management of the areas.

“Combating is at present happening on the outskirts of Severodonetsk,” Hayday stated, asserting that Ukrainian forces had repulsed 11 enemy assaults. He stated Ukrainian defenders had destroyed Russian tanks, artillery techniques and fight autos within the combating, and shot down two Russian drones.

A cooling tower on the Azot nitrogen ammonia plant in Severodonetsk caught hearth throughout a Russian assault, Hayday stated, however the hearth was extinguished and didn’t unfold.

He stated about 1,000 individuals had been within the plant’s bomb shelters, and stated authorities have tried to offer these individuals with all the things wanted: Mills, water and humanitarian help.

“Thank God, there usually are not many chemical substances there, as Azot was not working to its full capability, because it used to throughout Soviet instances. However anyway there are the remnants of chemical compounds, that are hazardous and extremely explosive,” he warned.