About 10,000 civilians are still present in the city of Sieverodonetsk, a key city in the Donbass which the Russians have been trying to seize for weeks, Serguiï Gaïdaï, the governor of the Lugansk region, said on Thursday June 16 on Telegram messaging.
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The city, under constant bombardment and whose three bridges which connected it to the neighboring city of Lyssytchansk are now destroyed, had 100,000 inhabitants before the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.