While Sievierodonetsk, in Donbass, is sinking

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On the 99th day of war, Moscow conquered “20 %” of the country, according to the Ukrainian president.

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Soldiers’ convoys cross deserted cities, while artillery duels tear the silence of end of the day. It is today the banal scene of the cities of Donbass, from Bakhmut to Sloviansk via Kramatorsk. These are pending cities. The front is getting closer. War is already there, within artillery range. War lurks.

A Ukrainian soldier passes in front of a gypsum manufacturing plant destroyed during a Russian bombing in Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. A Ukrainian soldier passes in front of a gypsum manufacturing plant destroyed during a Russian bombing in Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 28 2022. Francisco Seco/AP

The harshest forehead, at 99 e From the war triggered on February 24 by Moscow, it is Sievierodonetsk and Lyssytchansk, the most eastern cities of Donbass still under Ukrainian control, in the province of Luhansk. Sievierodonetsk is “occupied 80 %” by the Russian army, said on Thursday, June 2, the governor of Luhansk, Serhiy Hayday, and Lyssytchansk is mercilessly pounded every day.

In Sievierodonetsk, Ukrainian fighters still fight by rue. “The fights are very hard,” takes up the governor. It is not over, and I will not declare the fall of Sievierodonetsk that if the Russian conquest is total. “Some of the Ukrainian forces of Sievierodonetsk being entrenched in an industrial zone, the situation Could make one think of that of Marioupol, where the long seat of the city has extended by the headquarters of the last fighters in the Azovstal steelworks. kyiv also accuses Moscow of wanting to transform Sievierodonetsk into “New Marioupol”.

If the situation between the two cities of the Donbass seems comparable in terms of destruction, the Russian army proving unable to conquer a city without previously shaving it, Serhiy Hayday claims that “Sievierodonetsk will not be Marioupol”. The governor refuses to speak of a possible progressive evacuation of the fighters to Lyssytchansk, on the other side of the Seversky Donets river, because we are “in the field of military secret”, but it is however, at this stage of The battle, the crucial question. However, it seems that the Ukrainian power wants at all costs to avoid a new seat, synonymous with sacrifice for its fighters. Mr. Hayday recognizes, however, that “in the face of a Russian artillery which destroys everything, [the] fighters must fall back gradually”.

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The Russian compressor roll, greater than the Ukrainian army in the Donbass both by its air capacities and by the power of its artillery, has already transformed Sievierodonetsk into the field of ruins. The city would be “damaged at 90 %”, according to the governor, and the inhabitants who stayed there live without water, without electricity, without food. A chemical production plant was struck this week by air raids, triggering a huge pink cloud. The governor spoke of “a nitric acid reservoir”. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, denounced “blind” and “simply crazy” strikes.

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