Lysychansk city is enduring ‘massive’ bombardment: KyivAFP, KYIVUkrainian forces are facing “massive” and relentless artillery attacks in a battleground eastern city, Kyiv said on Tuesday. With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces tightening their grip on Severodonetsk in the Donbas region, its twin city of Lysychansk is now coming under heavier bombardment. Photo: AFP“The Russian army is massively shelling Lysychansk,” Sergiy Gaiday, governor of the Lugansk region, which includes both cities, wrote on Telegram. In Lysychansk, a Russian strike had left a gaping hole in a police station and damaged nearby apartment blocks, journalists in the city reported. Fifteen people were killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday, its governor said.

Source: Taipei Times June 22, 2022 20:55 UTC