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The missiles hit construction early in the morning, destroying the building and a nearby school, charring parked cars and cutting down trees.
Alexander Levchenko, 43, was burned alive in his fifth-floor home after all attempts to save him failed. Two others were killed: a 70-year-old woman and a soldier. Two others are missing, probably dead, citizens say. injured, 3 of them seriously.
Groups of citizens gathered around the Yaroslava Mudroho Street site to express their concern. There have been fears about what might happen here in Sloviansk as Russian forces approach; they have already taken cash from the city of Lyman, bringing their artillery and short-range missiles within the amazing diversity of that city.
Sloviansk has symbolic importance as the position where the separatist insurgency that led to the 2014 war began. It is now also of strategic importance to Vladimir Putin’s forces in their purpose of capturing eastern Ukraine.
On some other front, Russian troops were engaged in a bitter struggle over Sievierodonetsk and Lysichansk; Capturing those villages would give Moscow the Luhansk region and would be offering some other direction to Donbass.
Ukrainian forces were severely beaten in arms on any of the war lines in the east, suffering terrible losses. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia “wants to destroy the Donbass” and that its crusade is claiming a terrible amount of civilian and military lives, with up to a hundred infantrymen killed every day. The number of wounded is unknown, but in the war camp on average, 3 times more combatants are wounded than killed.
Western arms deliveries, the Ukrainians say, are not coming fast enough. The United States has announced that it will send long-range multiple rocket systems (LSRCs) to Ukraine, President Biden has stipulated that systems capable of attacking Russia will not be part of it. , fearing that NATO is in direct conflict with the Kremlin.
For the population of the destroyed buildings in Sloviansk, the future is full of uncertainty and apprehension.
“The Russians are here and we believe those attacks will continue, there will be more people killed,” said Elena, 59. “It’s very sad to think about what happened to the deficient Alexander. die, through fire, in your own home.
Elena, who has lived in the apartments for more than 10 years, was born in Russia. “Both my parents are Russian. But I am satisfied here in Ukraine and I see no justification for what Vladimir Putin is doing. He says he needs to release but we don’t need that kind of release,” he said. “I have a daughter who lives in [the separatist People’s Republic of Donetsk] and they tell her all this propaganda, and she believes in it, she talks about this liberation.
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“We had all those fights in 2014. Since then, we have built a smart city. I see that it is now being destroyed: for what? This position will not be safe, I will communicate to my husband and we will have to do. do.
At 89, Lydia Nikoleyeva says she still has no option to stay. “Where should I go? I am sick, I have liver and center problems, the tablets I had to take ran out a month ago, no one can bring me. “here never again. I can’t travel, so I’ll wait here and see what happens, if the Russians come here,” he says.
Some of the evacuees from Sloviansk have returned, experiencing monetary and social difficulties to settle elsewhere. Suburban houses look empty, only for citizens to get out of their basements. These spaces have suffered artillery and air attacks, and the basement is the safest option. .
Slovyansk Deputy Mayor Yuri Pidhisnyi said management was doing its best to deal with the lack of gas, the restriction of the water source and the closure of maximum food stores. he would go out to capture the city.
“They have Lyman components and they attack the villages between there and this place,” he says. “This is the city where the terrorists began their operations in 2014. We controlled to expel them from here, but we had 8 years of war. after that. Now they need it back.
In April 2014, separatists, reinforced by Russian special forces, took control of the municipal building, police headquarters and the offices of the SBU, the intelligence service. Ukrainian forces suffered one of their biggest losses when an army helicopter carrying 14 people, General Serhiy Kulchytsky of the National Guard added, was shot down.
Now army and security officials are talking about the risk of a double attack on the Donbass from Luhansk, if Sievierodonetsk and Lisichansk are taken, and a push in the direction of Lyman. the Russians nevertheless defeated the resistance there: another sign of the Kremlin’s concentration of forces here.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, says his country now has the momentum of the confrontation and aims to expel Ukrainians from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Major Andriy Eremenko, who is part of a volunteer unit that fought near Lyman, describes the Relentless Artillery Attacks of the Russians on the villages to reach Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
“They shot Sviatohirsk and Bohorodychne,” he says with his fingers. “They also tried for Ozerne and Dibrova, they are small positions, but the purpose is to lead an offensive in Sloviansk. They have agents on position in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk looking to assist in an occupation. They are a danger, our security takes care of them.
There are citizens of Slovyansk whose loyalties seem mixed. On the street, 4 women argue about the blame for the conflict. “Putin is guilty of this mess, he is destroying our country,” it is said. “If Ukraine had been willing to talk, it wouldn’t have happened, they provoked it themselves,” said another.
Spreading her lawn across the street, Vera, 70, talks about the loneliness of being alone in times of war. “I hope to live a little longer, I don’t need to die alone, but that’s what will happen, we don’t know. our destiny,” she says. But I hope they save me and our other people are saved. “