Russia moving to 'blockade' last Luhansk region city under Ukraine's control, local governor says
in a Telegram post on Monday that Russian forces had fired on a bus station, two churches and other buildings in Lysychansk.
Russian-backed separatists claimed Russian troops had "entered Lysychansk from five directions and were isolating Ukrainian defenders," though Ukraine's officials did not mention this in their updates,Haidai said Russian forces were trying to "blockade the city from the south, destroying everything there is," but he added that Ukrainian troops were defending Lysychansk.
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