Battle For Severodonetsk To Decide Fate Of Donbas: Ukraine's Zelensky

Thursday, 9 June 2022newsdesk

The battle for the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk is brutal and will determine the fate of the Donbas region, said the country's president, as Russian troops lay waste to the city in an assault aimed at controlling eastern Ukraine.

New Delhi, 09 June 2022

As per news report of NDTV, After failing to take control of the capital Kyiv, the Kremlin says it is now seeking to completely "liberate" Ukraine's breakaway Donbas where Russian-backed separatists broke away from Ukrainian government control in 2014. Around a third of the Donbas was held by the separatists before the Feb. 24 invasion. "This is a very brutal battle, very tough, perhaps one of the most difficult throughout this war," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video statement on Wednesday. "Severodonetsk remains the epicentre of the encounter in Donbas ... Largely, that is where the fate of our Donbas is being decided now," he added. Ukrainian fighters in Severodonetsk pulled back to the city's outskirts on Wednesday but have vowed to fight there for as long as possible.

Source -NDTV