The governor of the separatist province of Lugansk, Sergii Haidai, assured that the Russian army would be trying to “seize” the area of Rubizhne and Severodonets and confirmed that the authorities were already preparing a humanitarian corridor for March 20.
In a video posted on Telegram on the official channel of the People's Militia of the LPR, a uniformed soldier has assured that the separatist flag is flying in the city, as noted by the US network CNN.
Hours earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on its official Facebook profile that Russian troops had advanced towards Severodonetsk, a mere thirteen kilometers from Rubizhne.
Haidai had also reported in an interview with a Ukrainian media, published on his official Facebook profile, that the bombings did not stop in the area, not only in Severodonetsk, but also in Popasna, Lysychansk and Kreminna.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also assured that Russia “continues to take steps to compensate for the loss of personnel at the expense of foreigners”, so, according to reports, “the Russian occupiers have already recruited about 1,000 volunteers from the so-called army of Bashar al-Assad and Hizbollah.
On the other hand, anti-aircraft alarms went off again on Thursday night in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, according to Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. With regard to the shelling around the capital, one person has been killed and three others, including a child, have been injured in a bombing raid on Thursday in the Sviatoshynskyi district.
For his part, the mayor of Lviv (Lviv), Andriy Sadovy, claimed that Russian “missiles” exploded this Friday in the airport area of this large western Ukrainian city, located near the Polish border.
As a result of the attack, a factory near the airfield was destroyed.
“Several missiles have hit an aircraft repair factory. The building was destroyed by gunfire. The operation of the factory had previously been suspended, so there are no casualties for now,” he wrote on Facebook.
The mayor reported that there were already lifeguards in the place. Minutes earlier, Sadovy had assured that the attack had not directly impacted the airport.
An AFP journalist was able to observe a smokescreen soaring into the sky in that area, as well as police vehicles and ambulances in that direction.
(With information from Europa Press)
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