Separatists backed by the Russian army said on Saturday they had "
completely
" surrounded Lyssychansk, in eastern Ukraine, a key city at the heart of intense fighting in recent days.
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Today, the people's militia of Lugansk (the separatist army, editor's note) and the Russian armed forces occupied the last strategic heights, which allows us to affirm that the locality of Lyssytchansk is completely surrounded
", indicated a representative of the Lugansk separatist army, Andrei Marochko, quoted by the Russian news agency TASS.