TOTAL WAR

A town that has become a key point of the offensive: the Russians are taking out the strongest weapons, the 'Terminators' have arrived President Zelenski ruled out the possibility of ceding part of the territory in exchange for a truce It says:Antonija HandabakaPublished: May 23, 2022 2:30 Russian forces have focused on attacks on Severodonetsk, a city in the Luhansk region, which local authorities say has been "destroyed". The governor of the Luhansk region , Serhiy Hajdai , said that the city was attacked from four directions at the same time, but that all attempts by the enemy to enter the city were rejected. North Donetsk is the last stronghold of Ukrainians in this area. According to Hajdaj, there is only one hospital in the city with three doctors and supplies for ten days. After a failed attempt to enter the city, Russian forces continued firing in and around the city, Hajdaj says. A daily report from the British Ministry of Defense states that Severodonetsk is a tactical priority of the Russian army and that Russian BMP-T tanks, better known as Terminators, have been deployed on that battlefield. These are a maximum of ten armored vehicles of this type, so it is unlikely that they will particularly affect the outcome of the fighting, according to the British. Russian forces also began to attack the neighboring Donetsk region, where they shelled the villages of Virnopilia, Dibrivne and Dovhenke, and their main target was the city of Slovyansk. It is a city key to Russia's plan to occupy the entire Donbas, an industrial region made up of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. "Bells in the city" Russian authorities, meanwhile, have reported on successful attacks in Donetsk and the Mykolayiv region in the south. Oleksandr Senkevich , the mayor of Mykolayiv, said that "bells" exploded in the city and called on the residents to follow the rules according to which there must be two walls between them and the street. Attacks were also recorded in Zaporizhia. Ukrainian sources reported yesterday that roads in the Kherson region were blown up, aimed at preventing residents from leaving the city for territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. Detonations were heard in the area during the night. Authorities in Kiev have released a list of places where there is a high risk of mines and remaining grenades. Bad news also came from Mariupol, which is now completely under Russian control. The Ukrainian mayor of that city said that the hygienic condition was catastrophic and that there was a threat of a health crisis due to mass burials in shallow graves throughout the city where the sewage system was destroyed.