Fighting Continues in Severodonetsk

As the European leaders are visiting war-scarred Kyiv’s suburb of Irpin, heavy fighting continues in Severodonetsk, in Eastern Luhansk region, where an estimated thousand of civilians are ‘sheltering’ inside the Azot chemical plant. Reports said.

Interfax news agency quoted a separatist leader saying that “Russia-backed forces” will reopen a humanitarian corridor for those civilians.

Leonid Pasechnik, head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, said “separatist forces had entered the plant, but had been unable to dislodge Ukrainian fighters from the factory.”

Aljazeera /Shakirat Sadiq