The Ukrainian army is under more pressure than at any time since the first desperate weeks after the Russian invasion.

It could be fighting a losing battle in Luhansk, the northern part of Donbas region.

The Ukrainian General Staff says the Russians appear to be concentrating their forces for another push.

In the last day the Russians have intensified their attacks across the Donbas front line - getting closer to completing the encirclement of Severodonetsk, a city of 80,000 before the invasion.

The Ukrainians, as usual, are fighting with stubborn determination. Reinforcements are being poured into the battle.

In just a few minutes I saw about 20 armoured personnel carriers, with soldiers riding on them, driving to the front line - along with tanks on transporters and multiple rocket launchers.

They have slowed the Russians down but have not stopped the offensive grinding forward. The Russians are inflicting heavy casualties.

A military source in the 57th Brigade told me that one of their units went into the line with 240 men and came out with about 140 - the rest of them killed, wounded and captured.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the Russians could be killing up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers a day in Donbas.

Not far from Severodonetsk, Bakhmut is a town getting slowly eaten by the war. This week it is about three miles from the Russians, well within range. Next week it might be much closer.

Civilians with somewhere to go have left. In the ruins in Donbas, the victory in Kyiv in March - the euphoria, glory and sacrifice - feel distant.

Bakhmut has been heavily shelled. Standing in front of his damaged house, a man in his 40s called Mitri showed defiance, apprehension and frustration. He had no idea what to expect in his town.

"I'm not Nostradamus. Why did Putin attack? It's all political games."

Mitri said President Zelensky's predecessor Petro Poroshenko would have reached a ceasefire agreement by now.

"At least there was peace before, they were negotiating. It's a pity about the people who died, the soldiers. It is a real shame."

It was, he said, President Zelensky's fault. He had missed an opportunity.

Mitri shrugged and sucked angrily on his cigarette when I asked him if he would accept a deal that allowed Russia to control all of Donbas, compared to roughly a third of the territory it controlled before the invasion.

"I don't know. What could it change for me? The main thing is to stay alive. This is just the beginning, everything is still to come. If we survive, we'll see how it goes."

Thousands of civilians are still in Severodonetsk, as the Russians fight to encircle the last Ukrainian soldiers in the oblast of Luhansk, the northern side of Donbas.

At the railway station in Pokrovsk, a safe distance from the battle, I spoke to Lida, an elderly woman who uses a wheelchair. She had just been evacuated from Severodonetsk.

With other disabled and wounded civilians, she was being evacuated to the relative safety of western Ukraine on a special train, turned into an ambulance and intensive care unit by the medical organisation MSF, Doctors without Borders.

Lida, who radiated defiance and cigarette smoke, was rescued by soldiers who took her and other civilians through heavily shelled areas.

"They bombed everything, we barely escaped. Glass is smashed, everything is scattered around. And I am not able to walk at all. Disabled. That's how it is.

"Nine storey buildings, the upper floors are destroyed. All ruined.

"Putin's a scoundrel. We used to live peacefully. There was a Soviet Union and so be it. They divided Ukraine and Russia. So that's why the problems began."

If President Putin's forces can encircle Severodonetsk, their next targets would most likely be the key cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk in the Donetsk Oblast, the other side of Donbas.

Then he might declare victory in the battle for Donbas.

I saw lines of freshly dug trenches near the two cities, as the Ukrainians prepared fall back positions. If they fell, and it is no certainty as they are both heavily defended, President Putin would be able to declare his first significant victory of the war.

Russia would control a belt of territory stretching along its border south from Donbas and along most of Ukraine's coastline.

President Zelensky says that only diplomacy can end the war, but he has said that Russia must return to the positions it held before the invasion.

His allies, led by the US and UK, want to weaken Putin's Russia permanently. They have said Russia must not win.

Their critics say they'll fight to the last Ukrainian.

The currency of war is blood. As families bury their dead, more Ukrainians, like Mitri in Bakhmut, will question the blood price they are paying, and ask whether it is better to pay for a ceasefire with land - or lives

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Ukraine is finished. There president is as clueless as our own dullard!

well let’s just shout

PROPAGANDA

A Comedian being used by US and UK to weaken Russia

Mumu go helpe Russia discover russian’s weakness in arms, logistics and battle ground tactics and Russia done do serious upgrade on the weaknesses

Cubalabloo:
Ukraine is finished. There president is as clueless as our own dullard!

Read here, the angry, hopeless Ukrainian even blamed him, clown Zelensky

It was, he said, President Zelensky's fault. He had missed an opportunity.

claiming that the ex president poroshenko would've done better.

If Ukraine's war against Russia isn't the definition of proxy, then I wonder what is.
When putin was sounding it to him for years that he should abide by the Minsk deal they signed with their own hands, he was busy ditching out warnings about how he would clean DPR and LPR of all rebels and even went as far as threatening mother Russia, saying they would build Nukes and take back Crimea, all because he felt he had the backing of USA and NATO. too bad USA and NATO can do nothing to stop the demolition that is currently happening there. They can only feel "sorry" and "sympathize" and "strongly condemn" putins war from the comfort of their warm bedrooms in Europe and America.

Anyway, Zelensky has said he's ready to fight the war for 10-20 years. So there's no cause for alarm lol make we just dey watch the destruction and demolition

Grand Comedian of The Federal Republic of Ukraine wey go dey listen to that other comedian general of the UK wey dey listen to brother Biden wey be Buhari twin brother.

Biden don even forget say war dey go on for Ukraine.

Na China and Taiwan matter him don go dey chook mouth put wey him no understand the genesis.

Reports coming in that Russian Air Force above Luganks in huge numbers. LPR reports that he sees this for the first time, a lot of combat aircraft and helicopters have just swept over the city. They went in several waves. Soon, deafening explosions thundered in the distance, windows and even the walls of houses trembled.
At this time, air raid sirens are roaring in Ukraine.


The Russian army launched 3 missile attacks on industrial facilities in Krivoy Rog

"Serious damage. We are clarifying information on the victims," ​​Reznichenko, head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional military administration, said.

He added that the night in the Dnepropetrovsk region "was a continuous air raid.

War is bad.. but if there should be any; let it be in my days so my children will know peace..

PENNYSWAP:
well let’s just shout

PROPAGANDA

A Comedian being used by US and UK to weaken Russia

They help Russia discover her weakness and they has done serious upgrade on the weakness

I just can't help but laugh each time I think of zelensky what a clown he his

BBC said here that Zelensky's "allies" led by the US and UK, want to weaken Putin's Russia permanently. They have said Russia must not win. meanwhile, they do all this without sacrificing anything on their part. Common to ban Russian oil sef, dem no fit. They're not willing to suffer to actualize their goal of weakening russia. Meanwhile, their "ally" Ukraine's on the other hand, their infrastructures is being pummeled into dirts daily, huge chunks of lands being lost daily, millions being displaced, inluding those fleeing to Europe and those even dying, yet the clown is claiming that he would see to it that the wishes of his allies, which is to weaken russia is actualized even if it takes 10 to 20 years of fighting

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the Russians could be killing up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers a day in Donbas.

He said Russian troops are killing 100 Ukrainian troops on a daily basis, although we all know that he's probably lowering the number since reports Im seeing shows that the toll is higher, he still makes no effort to negotiate a ceasefire

Putin has finally accepted the reality that only war would settle and give him what he currently wants. Russian troops have been effective the past few weeks. Hammering casualties on Ukrainian troops. Although It might take a while I think it's pretty obvious that by the end of war, the russians would end up having more lands than they started with. And I mean huge chunks of land.

BTW the idea that Russia would be weaken is false. Even boris Johnson knows this
China, India and the BRICS have their backing

Na lie Ukrainians are winning the war but on media hehehe

yyba:
Na lie Ukrainians are winning the war but on media hehehe

Kuleba and Arestovich were moaning today that Donbas is almost lost and it is going to be a very tough month for them. Ukraine ko, Mykraine ni.

gaby:
Grand Comedian of The Federal Republic of Ukraine wey go dey listen to that other comedian general of the UK wey dey listen to brother Biden wey be Buhari twin brother.

Biden don even forget say war dey go on for Ukraine.

Na China and Taiwan matter him don go dey chook mouth put wey him no understand the genesis.

LOL the bolded. He don actualize Wetin he want na. Pressured Germany to ban NS2. Cut Russian bank from swift. Sanctioned russia.
Thanks to Ukraine he don get wetin he want.
Now he don run go Asia go dey threaten china.
Meanwhile, sending few self propelled howitzers and munitions to Ukraine monthly make the clown no go think say he just use am troway

MangekyoAlt:

LOL the bolded. He don actualize Wetin he want na. Pressured Germany to ban NS2. Cut Russian bank from swift. Sanctioned russia.
Thanks to Ukraine he don get wetin he want.
Now he don run go Asia go dey threaten china.
Meanwhile, sending few self propelled howitzers and munitions to Ukraine monthly make the clown no go think say he just use am troway

Russia is making much more than it could have ever budgeted by receiving payment for their gas in Rubles and sure as hell ain't going back to the Dollar or Euros.

Meanwhile, Biden has forgotten that the babies in the US have run out of baby formulas.

Cubalabloo:
Ukraine is finished. There president is as clueless as our own dullard!

Russia dey win war but her citizens dey japa in thousands daily

Well, every game is by calculation.I love it as the U.S played putin into a war that makes him bleed billions of dollars and reducing his weaponry stockpile by a whole hell with little Ukrainian.The US played and elephant to fight a rat, the elephant is fast losing its energy while the rat is still alife. How I want it

In a country where more than 4/5 of it's infrastructure has been destroyed, more than 5million flee ukraine, more than 5 super industrialised and arm building state are supporting ukraine still yet they are not still good enough.

In conclusion, it shows that UK, US,EU and nato cannot defeat russia in any form of warfare.

It’s a Russian victory, and it must have been hard for Ukraine (who almost never report losses or defeats) to admit to 1,700 surrendering. Maybe they felt it would guarantee more military aid.

Watching..

Boss469:


Russia dey win war but her citizens dey japa in thousands daily

is that what CNN told you do you know how big Russia is...

VictorUSA1:
Well, every game is by calculation.I love it as the U.S played putin into a war that makes him bleed billions of dollars and reducing his weaponry stockpile by a whole hell with little Ukrainian.The US played and elephant to fight a rat, the elephant is fast losing its energy while the rat is still alife. How I want it

Russia is still using old stuck weapons made by USSR they have not touched thier new Russia weapons self so the weak part is just a way to justify USA failure to save Ukraine.

Kingsnairaland:
Russia is still using old stuck weapons made by USSR they have not touched thier new Russia weapons self so the weak part is just a way to justify USA failure to save Ukraine.

Welldone.Putin's spokeperson has spoken.

Kingsnairaland:
is that what CNN told you do you know how big Russia is...

How big is Russia? Then tell me how urbanized the other part of Russia is.

At the of the day, na Ukraine go still lose, their economy, culture, infrastructures has been or is being destroyed by Russian missiles every hour, over 8m Ukrainians don Dey seek asylum now…

Whereas, life is normal in St Petersburg and other parts of the Russia federation.

Who’s the loser here?

Western countries wey dey supply una weapons, their citizens dey sleep with both eyes closed….life dey normal over there too…. If you want to defend your territory at least make sure say your opponent isn’t someone wey fit ruin you, e go make the match even…, but this wan be like person wey go make mouth 4 someone wey fit kill am…

Pro-Putin luuunatics won't stop taking Panadol for another person's headache.

Ukraine will come out of this stronger.

Donbas will be a stalemate.

Russia suffered worse destruction during World War 2 but still emerged victorious and stronger. So will Ukraine.