Top 5 things to know about Ukraine today: Fighting rages around Severodonestk, contact made with Azovstal fighters
Russia was throwing “all its reserves” at Severodonetsk and attempting to cut off the key city in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region by blowing up bridges, Ukraini
Russia was throwing “all its reserves” at Severodonetsk and attempting to cut off the key city in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region by blowing up bridges, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.
Interior minister Denys Monastyrskiy also said that Ukraine's intelligence service had established contact with its soldiers who were captured by Russian troops at the Azovstal steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol.
Here is what you need to know about what’s happening in Ukraine.
After Ukraine’s military recaptured parts of Severodonetsk in recent days, Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said Saturday that the Russian army had regrouped and was “throwing all its efforts, all its reserves” at the city.
Speaking on Ukrainian television, Haidai said that Russian troops were blowing up bridges across the Siverskyi Donets River in a bid to prevent reinforcements from entering the city.
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