Intense fighting around Severodonetsk as Zelenskiy says Donbas is ‘hell’
by Peter Beaumont and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZEX9)
Russian forces thought to be trying to cut one of the main supply routes to Ukrainian defenders in the area
Intense fighting has been reported around the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk as Russian forces appear to be stepping up an offensive to encircle its Ukrainian defenders.
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the eastern provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk - known collectively as the Donbas - were being turned into hell" and warned that what he called the final stage of the war" would be the bloodiest.
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