A mass evacuation of civilians from the fiercely contested eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk is now 'simply not possible' due to relentless shelling and fighting, a regional official says.
A mass evacuation of civilians from the fiercely contested eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk is now "simply not possible" due to relentless shelling and fighting, a regional official says.A Russian general says a humanitarian corridor will be opened to evacuate them to Russian-controlled territory
Russian troops control about 80 per cent of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it, Serhiy Haidai, Governor of the eastern Luhansk region, said. The remaining civilians in Sievierodonetsk were "almost entirely cut off from aid supplies after the destruction of the last bridge", he said.Civilians are sheltering in Sievierodonetsk's Azot chemical plant.
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