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Ukrainian defenders were fighting fiercely for "every metre" of Severodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as Russian forces destroyed a bridge to another city across the river, leaving stranded civilians with just one way out.
Russian forces swarmed into the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and pounded a zone where hundreds of civilians were sheltering, a Ukrainian official said on Monday—a scene that mirrored Moscow's brutal capture of Mariupol last month.
Ukraine has issued increasingly urgent calls for more Western weapons to help defend Sievierodonetsk, which Kyiv says could hold the key to the future course of the war.