The situation is becoming “more and more difficult” for the Ukrainians in the Donbass, where Moscow is bombing Severodonetsk “24 hours a day”, while the verdict in the first war crimes trial against a Russian soldier is expected in Kyiv on Monday. Moscow continues to increase its firepower in the Donbass. According to Sergei Gaidaï, the governor of the Lugansk region, there are the withdrawn units from the Kharkiv region (northeast), the attackers of the siege of Mariupol (southeast), the militias of the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, mobilized Chechen forces and troops as reinforcements Siberia and the Russian Far East.
“All Russian forces are concentrated in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions,” Serguii Gaidai said on Telegram. The same with the armament. “Everything is concentrated here,” added the governor, including the famous S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft and anti-missile complexes, which correspond to the American patriots.
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The decisive point of this battle of Donbass, Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region, is under fire from Moscow “24 hours a day”, Serguiï Gaïdaï was outraged. “They use scorched earth tactics, they destroy the city on purpose” with airstrikes, multiple rocket launchers, mortars or tanks firing at buildings, he added.
The Ukrainian army announced on Facebook on Sunday that at least seven civilians were killed and eight others wounded in bomb attacks in 45 municipalities in the Donetsk region. The fate of Severodonetsk is similar to that of Mariupol, which today, after several weeks of siege, is an apocalyptic landscape. Several neighborhoods are nothing but a tangle of tin and debris, slabs of building ripped open by rockets and shells. Hundreds of thousands of residents fled. Others died. An unknown but undoubtedly enormous record.