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View all search resultsFierce battle for key Ukraine city changing ‘every hour’
Just days ago, Moscow seemed close to taking the strategic industrial hub in the east but Ukrainian forces have managed to hold out.
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treet fighting raged on Tuesday for control of Ukraine's flashpoint city of Severodonetsk, with the situation changing "every hour", an official said, as Kyiv warned its troops were outnumbered by Russian forces.
Just days ago, Moscow seemed close to taking the strategic industrial hub in the east but Ukrainian forces have managed to hold out.
"Our heroes are holding their positions in Severodonetsk. Fierce street fights continue in the city," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address late on Monday.
Concerns about a global food crisis also grew as Zelensky warned of tightening grain supplies – Ukraine is a top producer of the commodity – due to what Washington described as a Russian strategy of "blackmail".
Thousands of civilians have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes since President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
After being repelled from other parts of the country, including Kyiv, Russia has concentrated its assault on the eastern Donbas region and had been making slow but steady progress.
Severodonetsk – the largest city still in Ukrainian hands in the Lugansk region of the Donbas – has been the focal point in recent weeks, and officials described a fast-changing situation on the ground.
