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Russian-backed separatists say they have ‘completely’ encircled Lysychansk – reports
Andrei Marotchko, a spokesman for the pro-Russian separatist forces, told Russian state-owned news agency, Tass:
"Today the Luhansk popular militia and Russian forces occupied the last strategic heights, which allows us to confirm that Lysychansk is completely encircled."
Lysychansk represents the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance to Moscow’s forces in the Luhansk region, and has been under constant Russian artillery bombardments and airstrikes for weeks.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, wrote on Telegram:
"Private houses in attacked villages are burning down one by one. With such a high density of shelling, we only have time to shelter the injured. Fires simultaneously in several places. We barely have time to eliminate large-scale fires in Lysychansk."
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/j...