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Lugansk, one of the two regions of Donbass, is now almost entirely in Russian hands, after the fall of Lysychansk. On Sunday July 3, kyiv announced that it was withdrawing its troops from this strategic city. Ukrainian soldiers have sometimes resisted with submachine guns dating from the 1940s…
The city of Lysychansk is now controlled by Russian forces in the Donbass. The inhabitants of the region can no longer bear the bombardments that have been falling on the region for three days. “I’m worried, I’m going home“, said a Ukrainian civilian. The soldiers leave town, describing the fighting as “a hell“. Some collapse from fatigue, and sleep in the woods.
The morale of the commander of the Ukrainian battalions who resisted in Lysychansk is at the lowest. FConfronted with the images of the Russians hoisting their flag, he is bitter and sad. “My feeling is disgust“, he says. The machine guns used by Ukrainian soldiers to resist sometimes date from the 1930s or 1940s. “It’s not comparable with what they have“, they indicate, comparing their weapons and those of the Russian troops.
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