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KYIV —Russian troops have launched an attack to surround the confused city of Lysychans'k in eastern Ukraine and take full control of its sister city, Severodonetsk, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Friday. rice field.
The regional governor earlier said that Ukrainian troops "must withdraw" from Sieviero Donetsk and that they were ordered to take up new positions.
Pentagon spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk refused to comment on the Governor's remarks and told reporters at a briefing in Kieu that the information was "not disclosed." (Report by Max Hunder, Written by Tom Balmforth, Edited by Jason Neely)
