this to happen. if russia does take lysychansk, the last major stronghold in the luhansk region, is that game over in the donbas? this will by far not be the game overfor the donbas area because, as you know, there are other large cities in the donbas area, particularly in the donetsk region, including slovyansk and kramatorsk. these are cities which are now controlled fully by the ukrainian armed forces. and these are cities which are, and have been for the last couple of days, targets for very severe missile attacks, artillery shelling in particular. today in the morning, there have been reports of a missile strike on kramatorsk. slovyansk is under artillery shelling every day, but the battle for the donbas is not over yet.
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alps, local media saying five people have been killed. will believe this happened in the dolomites, 60 miles north of venice. that is the only information we have at the moment, that five people have been killed in the collapse of a glacier in the dolomites, north of venice. more as that comes in. the russian defence ministry says its troops have gained control of the eastern ukrainian region of luhansk. moscow s forces had been encircling lysychansk, the last city in the area which is still being defended by ukraine. earlier, we spoke with yuriy sak, spokesman for the ukrainian ministry of defence, who countered russia s claim. we ve been hearing these claims, actually, from yesterday, and these claims have not been confirmed yet by the ukraine s general staff, the armed forces of ukraine, neither by the local administration and authorities. what we can say with certainty, of course, is the situation in lysychansk has been very intense
complaints and grievances scheme. the russian defence ministry says its troops have gained control of the eastern ukrainian region of luhansk. moscow s forces had been encircling lysychansk, the last city in the area which was being defended by ukraine. earlier, we spoke with yuriy sak, spokesman for the ukrainian ministry of defence who countered russia s claim. we ve been hearing these claims, actually, from yesterday, and these claims have not been confirmed yet by the ukraine s general staff, the armed forces of ukraine, neither by the local administration and authorities. what we can say with certainty, of course, is the situation in lysychansk has been very intense for quite a while now. after the battle for severodonetsk, lysychansk was the key focus of the russian offensive,
life is top priority, so sometimes we may retreat from certain areas, just so that we will retake them in the future. and there are other claims that russia is encircling ukrainian troops, or encircling the town itself. what s your take on that? trying to encircle ukrainian troops in the east of ukraine, in the area of luhansk and donetsk regions, has been russian tactics from the beginning of this aggressive war. they ve very often claimed that they ve almost completed an encirclement, but very often, these claims haven not been corroborated, so at the moment we can say that the city is still not under the full control of the russian armed forces, and as for the encirclement, of course, they are trying to achieve that, but ukrainian armed forces are resisting very heroically and are very determined not to allow