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The "human cost" of the battle for Severodonetsk, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, is "horrific," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (pictured, above, from Facebook) said Monday, as Russian forces have extended their control in recent days, though Kiev says they have not fully captured it.
"It's just scary."
"The human cost of this battle is too high for us. It is simply frightening," Zelensky said in his daily evening address to Ukrainians, uploaded to the Telegram platform.
"The Battle of Donbass will certainly remain in military history as one of the fiercest in Europe," the Ukrainian head of state added.
"Up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers" are killed and "500 are wounded every day" in battles with the Russian army, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said last Thursday.
For his part, Mr Zelensky said on June 1 that his army was losing "from 60 to 100" soldiers a day.
"We are facing absolute evil," he said last night. Before adding: "we have no choice but to advance and liberate our country", as the areas in the south and east held by Russian troops have been "cut off from civilisation" after Moscow's forces cut "all communications" with the outside world.
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Ο κ. Zelensky once again asked the West to supply the Ukrainian army with "more weapons" as Moscow's forces have seized most of Severodonetsk and continue to pound the Ukrainian artillery.
Earlier yesterday, the Ukrainian Luhansk regional governor, Sherhiy Haidai, said that "70-80% of the city" had fallen into Russian hands and that "the three bridges" connecting Severodonetsk to its twin city of Lyshchansk had now been "destroyed."
Source: APE
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