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A bloody fight continues over the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region of Ukraine as Russian forces push forward with their attempts to gain control over the region, a top Russian sympathizer said Wednesday.
“There is active fighting near Lysychansk, where, according to the latest reports, a quite bloody combat is in progress with a lot of casualties,” Rodion Miroshnik, a representative for the separatist Luhansk People’s Republic aiding Moscow’s offensive, told a Russian media outlet. “About a third of the [Ukrainian] military have surrendered, with the other two-thirds left lying in the field.”
Fox News could not verify the LPR ambassador’s claims, but the Ukrainian defense ministry on Wednesday said “the main efforts of the enemy are focused on conducting hostilities” in the area “in order to encircle the city of Lysychansk.”
A U.S. defense official said Tuesday that Russian forces had not yet been able to fully encircle the city.
Lysychansk has become the site of brutal fighting after Russian forces took the strategically important city of Sievierodonetsk, located directly across the Siverskyi Donets River, and have continued their westward campaign across Luhansk…
