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Associated Press
Francesca Ebel
Ukraine, Pokrovsk (AP) — Russian troops on Monday, After controlling major bases, he tried to push the attack deep into eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops withdraw from Lysychans'k city, the last breakwater of Ukrainian resistance, in Luhansk Oblast, one of the two regions that make up the eastern industry of Ukraine. I confirmed that I did. The center of Don Bus. The Russians also control about half of Donetsk, the second state of Donbus.
Ukrainian Army staff said Russian troops are now focusing on advancing towards the lines of Siversk, Fedrifka and Bakumut in the Donetsk region.
Russian troops have also stepped up the bombardment of the major Ukrainian fortresses of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk deeper in the Donetsk region.
On Sunday, six people, including a nine-year-old girl, were killed in Russian bombardment in Slovyansk, and another 19 were injured, according to local authorities. Kramatorsk also fired on Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it an important goal to occupy the entire Donbus during the war in Ukraine. Moscow-backed separatists in Donbus have been fighting Ukrainian troops since 2014, when they declared independence from Kieu after the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine was annexed to Russia. Russia officially approved the self-proclaimed republic a few days before the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Defense Minister Putin reported on Sunday that Russian troops and their separatist allies had "fully controlled" Lysychansik and then controlled the entire Luhansk region.
In a nightly video speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the withdrawal, but Ukrainian troops vowed to fight their way home.
"This is especially true if our army orders withdraw people from a particular point in front of the enemy where they have the greatest fire advantage. That's true. Thanks to the increased supply of modern weapons, we'll be back thanks to our tactics, "Zelensky said.
Due to the inability to occupy Kyiv and other parts of northeastern Ukraine in the early days of the war, Russia focused on Donbus, unleashing heavy bombardment and ruining cities in the region from house to house. I have been engaged in the battle of.
When Moscow forced an attack in the eastern part of Ukraine, the western part of Russia was attacked on Sunday with the resurrection of sporadic and apparent Ukrainian strikes across borders. The governor of the Belgorod region of western Russia said fragments of Ukrainian missiles intercepted killed four people on Sunday. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, two Ukrainian drones were shot down in the Russian city of Kursk.
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Associated Press journalists Maria Grazia Murru and Oleksandr Stashevskyi contributed from Kieu, Ukraine.
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