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Russia Has Turned Donbas Into ‘hell’, Zelenskyy Says by nurudeen181(m): 10:26am On May 20, 2022 |
Russia’s renewed offensive in Ukraine’s Donbas
has destroyed the eastern region and turned it
into “hell”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy said, accusing Moscow of carrying
out senseless bombardments.
After failing to take Ukraine’s capital since
launching a full-scale invasion in February,
Russia is using massed artillery and armour to
try to capture more territory in the Donbas,
comprised of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas,
which Moscow claims on behalf of pro-Russian
separatists.
“The occupiers are trying to exert even more
pressure. It is hell there – and that is not an
exaggeration,” Zelenskyy said in a late address
on Thursday.
(Al Jazeera)
He said 12 people had been killed in the “brutal
and absolutely senseless bombardment” of the
city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region on
Thursday.
“[There are] constant strikes on the Odesa
region, on the cities of central Ukraine. The
Donbas is completely destroyed,” he said.
“This is a deliberate and criminal attempt to kill
as many Ukrainians as possible, to destroy as
many houses, social facilities and enterprises as
possible.”
The defence ministry in Kyiv said on Thursday
that Russian forces were preventing civilians in
Donbas from fleeing to Ukrainian-controlled
territory.
Severodonetsk and its sister city Lysychansk
make up the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance
in the smaller of the two regions comprising the
Donbas war zone.
Russian forces have surrounded the two – split
by a river marking a central front of the war –
and are bombarding them to try and wear
down resistance and starve residents of
supplies.
The residents still in the now ghostly city are
afraid to take more than a few steps outside
their front door.
Nella Kashkina sat in her basement next to an
oil lamp and prayed.
“I do not know how long we can last,” the 65-
year-old told the AFP news agency.
“We have no medicine left and a lot of sick
people – sick women – need medicine. There is
simply no medicine left at all.”
Russia is likely to reinforce its operations in the
industrial Donbas region once they secure the
city of Mariupol, British military intelligence
said early on Friday.
Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig, reporting from
Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, said emergency
services are struggling to deal with the scale of
the casualties and the damage in the city.
“Nowhere in Bakmut is safe and people have
become desensitised to the constant sound of
artillery and shelling,” he said.
The mayor has told residents to evacuate the
city as the Russian offensive continues to
intensify.
“Those that remain have a choice: evacuate
from the town or hope to survive the Russian
military onslaught,” Baig said. |
Re: Russia Has Turned Donbas Into ‘hell’, Zelenskyy Says by nurudeen181(m): 10:29am On May 20, 2022 |
The occupiers are trying to exert even more
pressure. It is hell there – and that is not an exaggeration,” Zelenskyy
said in a late address on Thursday. (Al Jazeera)
he is used to exageration... he knows |
Re: Russia Has Turned Donbas Into ‘hell’, Zelenskyy Says by ken6488(m): 11:52am On May 20, 2022 |
I thought Ukraine was wining 2 Likes |
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