At least 12 people were killed and 40 others injured Thursday, May 19 in Russian bombardments fed on the city of Severodonetsk, in eastern Ukraine, almost surrounded by forces from Moscow, announced the regional governor.
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The Russians “
started bombarding the regional center in the morning randomly with heavy weapons.
The shelling continues
,” Serguii Gaïdaï said on Telegram.
According to him, most of the shots hit apartment buildings and the toll could increase given the impossibility of inspecting the bombed areas.
15,000 inhabitants still in place
The mayor of Severodonetsk, Oleksandre Striouk, announced on May 6 that his city was "
virtually surrounded
" by the Russian military and pro-Russian separatists from Donbass, who are trying to take full control of the region.
According to him, 15,000 of the 100,000 inhabitants of this city before the war are still there.
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Severodonetsk, one of the few major cities in this region still in Ukrainian hands, together with its twin city of Lysychank, are located nearly 80 km east of Kramatorsk, which has become the administrative center of Ukrainian Donbass since separatists seized the eastern part of this large coalfield in 2014.
