Luhansk governor says Russians trying to capture city by Friday, but ‘no one’ is going to give it up
Ukraine’s military may have to “pull back” to stronger positions in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk amid heavy fighting in the city and frontline villages to the south as Russia pursues a breakthrough in Donbas, regional leaders have said.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk, said the Russians were trying to capture the city by Friday, while the road from neighbouring Lysychansk to Bakhmut 30 miles south-west was being shelled too frequently to be used.
