The mayor of Sloviansk, a city that has found itself on the front line as Russian forces advance in the Donetsk region, has urged civilians to evacuate.
Speaking during his nightly video address yesterday evening, Zelenskyy reflected on Russia's advance in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine now that they have seized Luhansk and have turned their attention to Donetsk. He said"the armed forces of Ukraine respond, push and destroy the offensive potential of the occupiers day after day."
"Ukrainian forces have liberated more than a thousand settlements from the occupiers ... All of them suffered significant destruction. And this also implies the need for colossal funds for the restoration of infrastructure, for the return of medicine and social services, for the restoration of normal economic life," he said.
The mayor of Sloviansk, a key target of Russian forces, who are looking to push southwest into the Donetsk region of the Donbas), has urged residents to evacuate the city. "There are victims, including children. 94 civilian objects - homes and infrastructure - were destroyed and damaged,"The police said Russian forces had shelled 11 settlements. "Russian forces hit the cities of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, the town of Gostre, Oleksievo-Druzhkivka, Severny, the villages of Malinivka, Lastochkine, Novopoltavka, and Tarasivka," the police added.
President Zelenskyy, who spoke to the conference attendees via video call, warned that there was"really colossal" work needed to reconstruct the areas that have already been taken back from Russian troops. In addition to that,"we will have to free over 2,000 villages and towns in the east and south of Ukraine," he said.The eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk in Donetsk is readying for a major battle after Russian forces captured neighboring Luhansk province.
Plumes of smoke rising to the sky during heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Lysychansk, Ukraine, on July 1, 2022. Russia claimed it had captured Lysychansk on Sunday, a development later confirmed by Ukraine.
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