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Russians ‘fully occupy’ Severodonetsk, focus shifts to Lysychansk
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KYIV, 26 June 2022, (TON): Russian forces fully occupied the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, both sides said, “confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war’s bloodiest fighting.”
Ukraine called its retreat from the city a tactical withdrawal to fight from higher ground in Lysychansk on the opposite bank of the Siverskyi Donets river.
Pro-Russian separatists said Moscow’s forces were now attacking Lysychansk.
The fall of Sievierodonetsk once home to more than 100,000 people but now a wasteland was Russia’s biggest victory since capturing the port of Mariupol last month.
It transforms the battlefield in the east after weeks in which Moscow’s huge advantage in firepower had yielded only slow gains.
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