Before the war, Sievierodonetsk was home to around 100,000 people. About 12,000 to 13,000 remain in the city, Striuk said, huddled in shelters and largely cut off from the rest of Ukraine. Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Andrew Katell in New York and AP journalists around the world contributed. ———This story has been edited to correct that 1,500 people have died in Sievierodonetsk alone, not the Donbas region as a whole. ———Follow AP's coverage of the Ukraine war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

Source: ABC News May 27, 2022 20:37 UTC