After bloody battles, Ukraine war will end with diplomacy, Zelensky vows in anniversary interview 

At the very least six individuals have been killed in Russian assaults on the town of Severodonetsk in Ukraine’s Luhansk area prior to now day, the top of the regional navy administration stated Saturday.

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

“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 an announcement on Telegram.

Residents of Severodonetsk had been hiding because the starting of the conflict, in keeping with 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 are able to’t evacuate individuals, ship the humanitarian assist or ship any provides or ammunition to our defenders,” the official added.

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

“Preventing is at the moment going down 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 methods and fight autos within the combating, and shot down two Russian drones.

A cooling tower on the Azot nitrogen ammonia plant in Severodonetsk caught fireplace throughout a Russian assault, Hayday stated, however the fireplace 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 the whole lot wanted: Mills, water and humanitarian assist.

“Thank God, there are usually 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 substances, that are hazardous and extremely explosive,” he warned.