Russia Steps Up Shelling in Ukraine's East as EU Discusses Kyiv's Bid to Join Bloc
Russian invasion forces are intensifying airstrikes and shelling from artillery as they seek to take full control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk and the European Union’s executive arm considers Ukraine’s application to join the trade bloc.
Ukrainian troops are nearly cut off in Severodonetsk, one of the last major cities not under Russian control in the Luhansk region, but Russian forces are struggling to drive them out of a chemicals factory there.
Russia is stepping up its bombing campaigns against the facility and the city of Lysychansk, controlled by Ukraine and overlooking Severodonetsk from across the strategic Siverskyi Donets River, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai said Friday. Three civilians were killed and seven injured when a missile hit a cultural center in Lysychansk where they were sheltering, Mr. Haidai said. Another civilian died from shelling on the streets, while a mother and son were killed in Severodonetsk, he said.
“Fighting continues for complete control of Severodonetsk,” Mr. Haidai said.
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