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The situation in Severodonetsk and on the Bakhmut highway on May 27: data from the VGA, Butusov and Lutsenko – news from Ukraine, Regional news

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During the night the situation around Severodonetsk “without much change”: the city is in a tough defense, two-thirds of its perimeter is controlled by Russian invaders. About it in the comment Radio Liberty said the head of the local military-civilian administration Alexander Stryuk.

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He stressed that the city is not surrounded by the enemy, although the invaders have been trying to capture it for more than ten days. This is opposed by the “superhuman efforts” of the Ukrainian troops.

“Visually, 90% of the housing stock is damaged, 60% will have to be rebuilt,” he added. For the last two days, the fires have not stopped because of the powerful shelling of the invaders, who are trying to squeeze the defense forces out of the city.

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Former people’s deputy Igor Lutsenko, air reconnaissance fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, informedthat there is a battle for the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway, the Russians are using it, including Peonies.

“Fights are shooting, artillery, enemy helicopters and even planes in the air. The distance to the enemy is sometimes several hundred meters. Paratroopers from Pskov on their BMDs we already know from the Kyiv region. The whole color of the Russian army is here, I see,” he described the situation .

Lutsenko added that “if we had a little more of the necessary weapons, they would not have had any chances. And so you have to mess around.”

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Military reporter Yuri Butusov informedthat the main forces of the 90th Tank and 76th Airborne Division of the RF Armed Forces today continued their offensive on the highway near the villages of Nagornoye, Belogorovka and Berestovo.

Battle for Donbass.  The situation in Severodonetsk and on the Bakhmut highway on May 27

“The enemy is concentrating its efforts on breaking through our defenses in the Bakhmut area and is using its main operational reserves for this. The situation remains difficult, the enemy is trying to break through our defenses with large forces in order to create a new situation. But the Ukrainian army puts up powerful resistance and makes efforts to defeat the strike group Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. There are very heavy battles,” he wrote.

Eugene Pilipenko

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