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- “Fierce” fighting continued on Saturday in Sievierodonetsk, Donbass. “An expression says: you have to prepare for the worst and the best will come by itself”, said Saturday in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP) Serhi Haïdaï, the governor of the Luhansk region. He also warned that the Russians, who “bombard our positions twenty-four hours a day”, threatened to encircle the nearby town of Lysychansk, where a missile strike on the Maison de la culture, in which residents of the city had taken refuge, left four dead and a dozen injured on Saturday, according to the police. Residents prepare to be evacuated.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskywho has rarely left kyiv since the start of the conflict, traveled to the Mykolaiv and Odessa regions on Saturday to support the troops on the ground. Ukraine’s largest port, Odessa still under Ukrainian control and at the center of talks over the blocked export of millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain.
- The pro-Russian authorities in Donetsk, capital of the self-proclaimed “republic” of the same name, for their part, affirmed that Ukrainian bombardments on the city had left five dead and twelve injured among the civilian population.
- Ukraine has lost “about 50%” of its weapons since February 24, according to General Volodymyr Karpenko, chief of logistics of the Ukrainian army. Several Western countries assured this week that they would send new heavy weapons – including Caesar cannons, promised Thursday by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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