Ukraine Fighting for "Every Metre" Of Severodonetsk: President Zelensky
NDTV
Severodonetsk has become the epicentre of the wider battle for control over Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
Ukrainian defenders were fighting fiercely for "every metre" of Severodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as Russian forces destroyed a bridge to another city across the river, leaving stranded civilians with just one way out.
Severodonetsk has become the epicentre of the wider battle for control over Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Russian forces have taken most of Severodonetsk, having pulverized parts of the city in one of the bloodiest assaults since the Kremlin unleashed its invasion on Feb. 24.
"The key tactical goal of the occupiers has not changed: they are pressing in Severodonetsk, severe fighting is ongoing there - literally for every metre," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address on Sunday, adding that Russia's military was trying to deploy reserves in the Donbas.
Zelensky said the image of a 12-year-old wounded in a Russian strike was now the enduring worldwide face of Russia.
