The capture of Severodonetsk marks a symbolic breakthrough for Russia, following months of gruelling and bloody fighting. 9News
Severodonetsk was one of the last major Ukrainian strongholds in the area. Serhiy Hayday, a top military commander in east Ukraine, said the military made the decision to evacuate "because the number of dead in unfortified territories may grow every day."Smoke rises in the city of Severodonetsk during heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
A young boy sits in front of a damaged building after a strike in Kramatorsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. The Kremlin has been quietly supporting troops there since 2014, and even began granting passports to residents in 2018, with more than half a million distributed by mid-2021,Shortly before invading Ukraine in February, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the two separatist territories as independent states, ordering the deployment of Russian troops there in defiance of international law.
The fight there was markedly similar to the battle for Severdonetsk, both in terms of Russia's tactical decisions and with Ukrainian fighters and civilians holing up in structures that, before the war, were used for heavy industry.
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