Mr. Zelensky greeted troops in Lysychansk, one of the last cities in Luhansk that Ukrainians fully control and just across the river from Severodonetsk, the center of the fight for control of the Donbas area, which includes Luhansk.
It is the closest Ukraine’s president has come to the fighting since Russian forces pulled out of the Kyiv area in central Ukraine in March. Moscow has been focusing its firepower in Donbas recently.
Fighting in the streets of Severodonetsk, the capital of the Ukrainian-administered Luhansk region, is continuing and Ukrainian forces have pulled back from the center of the city after launching counterattacks that pushed back Russian forces over the weekend. Ukrainian forces control the city’s industrial zone and some nearby areas, according to Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region…
The general killed Sunday, Russian Army Maj. Gen. Roman Kutuzov, was less than 30 miles from Lysychansk when he died, as his forces tried to sever the road between Severodonetsk and the town of Bakhmut, according to Russian media. Ukrainian officials posted photographs of what they claimed were Gen. Kutuzov’s remains, suggesting that his body is in Ukrainian custody.
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