Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians, local officials said on Sunday.
Local residents sit on a bench near an apartment building damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 28, 2022.Local residents sit on a bench near an apartment building damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 28, 2022.
Sievierodonetsk has become the epicentre of the battle for control over Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas. Ukrainian and Russian forces were still fighting street-by-street there on Sunday, the governor of Luhansk province, Serhiy Gaidai, said. That leaves just one of three bridges still standing, and reduces the number of routes that could be used to evacuate civilians or for Ukrainian troops to withdraw to positions on the western side of the river.