War in Ukraine: Thousands of soldiers face encirclement in Luhansk region
Created: 06/23/2022, 11:51 am
By: Marvin Ziegele
The situation in the Ukraine war remains unchanged: Russian troops are advancing, Ukraine is resisting bitterly.
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Heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine: Russian troops advance further in the Ukraine war.
City in focus: Russia largely controls the city of Sievjerodonetsk.
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Some of the information comes from warring factions and cannot be directly verified independently.
Kyiv – In the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, Ukrainian troops are threatened with encirclement by Russian units south of the strategically important city of Lysychansk.
"In the direction of Sieverodonetsk, the enemy captured the settlements of Lozkutivka and Raj-Oleksandrivka," the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook.
This means that the Ukrainian units around the miners' settlement only have a maximum of four kilometers wide to retreat.
According to British intelligence, some Ukrainian troops withdrew.
According to the separatists, however, this is already controlled by the Russian units.
This cannot be verified independently.
According to the representative of the Luhansk separatists in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian troops have already cut the last connecting road from Lysychansk to the west.
According to his estimates, at least 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers are surrounded.
Ukraine News: Heavy fighting south of Sieverodonetsk
Heavy fighting is also raging south of Sievjerodonetsk, which has largely been conquered by the Russians.
Sievjerodonetsk and Lysychansk are the last major cities in the Luhansk region still under Ukrainian control.
The conquest of Luhansk - like that of the Donetsk region - is one of Russia's main goals in the war against Ukraine that began four months ago.
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The Russian advances are likely a result of recent reinforcements and a heavy concentration of shelling, the UK Ministry of Defense tweeted.
Despite strong pressure exerted by Russian troops on the Lysychansk-Syeverodonetsk pocket, efforts to achieve a deeper encirclement of the western Donetsk region remained deadlocked.
(marv/dpa)