Serhai Haidai says control over some settlements had switched several times; 350,000 people urged to leave Donetsk
to the south, the two main cities in Donetsk still held by Ukraine.
“The destiny of the whole country will be decided by the Donetsk region,” Pavlo Kyrylenko told reporters. “Once there are less people, we will be able to concentrate more on our enemy and perform our main tasks.” The Luhansk governor, Serhiy Haidai, said the weeks-long battle for Lysychansk had drawn in Russian troops that could have been fighting on other fronts, and had given Ukraine’s forcesRussian-backed separatists have seized two foreign-flagged ships in the Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol and claimed they are “state property”of movable property with forced conversion into state property”.over claims its cargo was stolen from Ukraine.
Russia is planning to launch a railway link between Rostov region and the areas of Donetsk and Luhansk it occupies in eastern Ukraine, Russian state media reports.which it annexed in 2014, and the areas of Kherson which it occupies., sending the membership bids of the two Nordic countries to allied parliaments for approval.
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