Russia advances in battle for eastern Ukraine city as NATO warns of long war
KYIV, June 19 (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday it seized a village near Ukraine's industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a prime target in Moscow's campaign to control the country's east, as the head of NATO predicted the war could last for years.
Russia's defence ministry said it had won Metyolkine, a settlement of fewer than 800 people before the war began. Russian state news agency TASS reported that many Ukrainian fighters had surrendered there.
Ukraine's military said Russia had "partial success" in the area, which is about six kilometers (four miles) southeast of Sievierdonetsk.
In Sievierodonetsk's twin city of Lysychansk, residential buildings and private houses had been destroyed by Russian shelling, Gaidai said. "People are dying on the streets and in bomb shelters," he added.
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