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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were resisting in the eastern city of Severodonjeck, where intense fighting with Russian troops could determine the fate of the Donbas region.
Moscow has concentrated its offensive on the industrial city, taking control of most of this city.
In his speech, Zelensky said on Thursday that some “cities in the Donbas, which the occupiers now consider key targets, are resisting.”
He added that Ukrainian forces had taken steps forward in the Zaporizhia and Kharkiv regions, and were in the process of “liberating the country”.
The governor of Severodonjeck, Sergiy Gaiday said that “one of the symbols of the city, the Ice Palace was destroyed.
Ukraine’s Deputy Chief of Military Intelligence Vadym Skibitsky said that Ukraine was losing ground on the front line and that now everything depended exclusively on arms and the West to keep Russia away: “This is now an artillery war. The fronts are now the place where the future will be decided and we are losing in terms of artillery. “Everything now depends on what the West gives us.”
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov stated that about 100 Ukrainian soldiers were being killed every day in the fighting in the front line./REL
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