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Relentlessly attacked, the city located in the east of Ukraine is in a situation similar to that of Mariupol a few weeks ago. As then, civilians and soldiers are entrenched in a factory and the dead are counted in the hundreds.
Smoke hangs over Severodonetsk. Images that have followed and resembled each other for several weeks. They testify to the violence of the bombardments and the continuous street fighting in this strategic city in eastern Ukraine. More than 500 people are currently taking refuge in the Azot chemical plant, constantly bombarded by Moscow and its allies. A situation reminiscent of Mariupol and the Azovstal metallurgical complex, now under Russian control. Ukrainian civilians and soldiers had taken refuge there before capitulating after several weeks of siege. In the Donbass region, despair reigns for the inhabitants who have chosen to stay.
A hundred deaths a day according to the authorities. Maybe more. Difficult to get an accurate count. The Ukrainian president denounces the particularly heavy toll paid by his citizens. “The battles in Donbass will certainly go down in military history as the most brutal in Europe. The human cost of this battle is very high for us and simply terrifying”, said Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia has offered to set up a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the Azot plant on Wednesday June 15. A gesture from Moscow which does not mean that the Russian forces are slowing down their conquest of the Donbass.