Russia Ukraine war, page-40755

‘After having reduced its twin city, Sievierodonetsk, to rubble last week, Lysychansk became the new focus of the fighting in eastern Ukraine. It has been under constant Russian artillery bombardments and airstrikes for weeks.

“Private houses in attacked villages are burning down one by one,’’ Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Saturday. “With such a high density of shelling, we only have time to shelter the injured. Fires simultaneously in several places. We barely have time to eliminate large-scale fires in Lysychansk.’’

According to witnesses, the occupiers are destroying one house after another with heavy artillery, with residents hiding in basements almost round the clock.’