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Fierce preventing rages on in two key jap Ukrainian cities

Gritty street-by-street, house-by-house preventing continued in two essential jap Ukraine cities Friday, on the one centesimal day of the warfare. 

Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai mentioned fierce battles had been raging in Sievierodonetsk, the place some 13,000 residents took shelter in basements to flee relentless Russian bombardment.

Ukrainian forces reclaimed 20 per cent of metropolis terrain that had been taken by Russian troops, he added later.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Thursday that there had been “some progress” within the battle for Sievierodonetsk however gave no particular particulars.

Haidai mentioned Russian forces had been additionally pummeling the neighbouring metropolis of Lysychansk.

Some 20,000 residents stay there — about one-fifth of Lysychansk’s prewar inhabitants — regardless that Russian shelling has shattered 60 per cent of the residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, authorities mentioned. 

Each cities are slowly grinding to rubble amidst the preventing. 

Russian forces have been making an attempt to seize the strategic Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, as they’re the one two cities in jap Ukraine’s Luhansk province it doesn’t management. 

Luhansk and Donetsk provinces make up the Donbas, an jap industrial area of Ukraine that Russia desires to seize. 

Britain’s Protection Ministry mentioned Russia now controls greater than 90 per cent of Luhansk and is prone to take it over utterly within the subsequent two weeks.

However Haidai mentioned progress made prior to now two days exhibits that Ukraine might be able to maintain off the Russian advance for that period.

This may permit sufficient time for brand new, superior Western weapons to succeed in Ukrainian fingers.

Russia controls virtually one-fifth of the nation, Zelenskyy mentioned this week. However the president remained defiant in a video message marking 100 days of warfare.

“We now have defended Ukraine for 100 days already,” he mentioned. “Victory shall be ours.”

(AP)