Situation in Sievierodonetsk “very difficult” as Russians trying to get to city center

In Sievierodonetsk, Russian invaders do not retrieve the bodies of their dead from the battlefield, so a strong corpse odor prevails on the city outskirts. Fierce battles continue as the enemy is trying to advance toward the city center.

Serhiy Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, said this on the air of the UA Razom Telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The Russians always employ the same tactics, firing for several hours in a row – four to five hours – before going on the offensive. Those who go on the offensive die, then there’s shelling again, then they’re going on the offensive again, and so on, until they penetrate through our positions. As for the corpses they literally walk on, I can say that it is quite hot now, the temperature is high, and there is a persistent morbid stench on the Sievierodonetsk outskirts. They don't take away bodies," the head of the region said.

He reiterated that no good news is coming from Sievierodonetsk at the moment as the enemy is still advancing toward the middle of the city. "Now the fighting is very fierce, it continues in the city of Sievierodonetsk. The situation is still very difficult," Haidai added.

He recalled that there is no mobile coverage in Sievierodonetsk. The only two locations that can be reached out to are humanitarian headquarters and a hospital where the Starlink kits are available.

As Ukrinform reported, heavy firefights for Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk continue in Luhansk region, while in Donetsk region, the Russians engage Ukrainian forces with small arms, tanks, artillery, mortars, Grad and Smerch MLR systems, and more.