Russia still bombs and advances in Donbass, partisan actions reported behind its lines

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Cover image: Smoke rises after a shelling in the city of Sievierodonetsk during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops, June 7, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

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  • Ukrainian forces “hold on” in Sievierodonetskbut the Russians are there “more numerous and more powerful”so that the situation is ” hard ” on the eastern front, Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters in kyiv on Sunday.
  • “The main efforts of the enemy are concentrated” on an attempt to seize this industrial center and ” to block ” Ukrainian troops in the neighboring region of Lysychansk, the Ukrainian army said in the evening. “Our soldiers keep control of Sievierodonetsk, fighting continues in its eastern part”she added in her press release.
  • The regional governor, Serhi Haïdaïhad earlier said that the situation had “aggravated” for the Ukrainians, despite a counter-attack which enabled them to retake half of this city. Its mayor, Oleksandr Striouk, for his part told the Ukrainian independent information agency, Unian, that “the situation changed every hour” and that of“intense street fighting” were in progress, as well as a “artillery duel”. According to Mr. Haidai, the bombardments further intensified on Sievierodonetsk and Lyssychansk, a town located on ” Heights ” and strategic for “hold the line of defense”.
  • The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, estimated, Monday, June 6, “credible” information that Russia ” Fly “ Ukrainian grain exports, blocked due to the conflict, “to sell them for his own profit”. “It’s all deliberate”he said during a virtual conference on food insecurity, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of making ” blackmail “ to obtain a lifting of international sanctions against the invasion of Ukraine.

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