At their wildest, are entering their fiercest fighting on Ukraine's eastern front for control of Donbass, as the Russians are amassing huge forces to control the crucial city of Severodonetsk,[/B] although attacks are also taking place elsewhere in the country.
Kiev[/B] mayor Vitaly Klitschko[/B] wrote on social media that explosions were heard in two areas of the city (Darnitsky and Dniprovsky), but gave no further details. But earlier on Saturday there had been rocket attacks in Mikolaiv as well as the port of Odessa, while the Russians also hit a training center for gunners near in Sumy in the northeast of the country.
Attention in the last 24 hours, however, has turned to Severodonetsk, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky reporting that the situation in the city remains extremely difficult, stressing in a dramatic message that there is street fighting, airstrikes, artillery fire and constant rocket fire.
There is no clear picture of the outcome of the fighting, however.
Russian forces claim to have driven out the Ukrainian forces and control most of the city, but Kiev says a counter-offensive is underway and has succeeded in retaking it. According to the mayor of Severodonetsk, Oleksandr Stryuk, "Russian forces have managed to enter the city and occupy much of it, dividing it in two. But our soldiers have managed to deploy again, to create a line of defense."
Late Saturday night it became known that Ukraine and Russia exchanged the bodies of some 320 of their fallen soldiers on Thursday, another tragic process, a result of the February 24 war and invasion. The exchange took place on the Zaporizhzhya front, a region located between Donbass and Crimea/Cherkessia, and Moscow is seeking to capture at least the southern part of it to create a safe corridor between the territories it wants to annex.
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