Russian forces cut off last routes out of Sievierodonetsk, Zelenskyy warns of ’brutal’ battle

On Monday, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said the Russian military destroyed all bridges connecting the city, making civilian evacuations and humanitarian aid deliveries nearly impossible. Oleksandr Stryuk, the head of the Sievierodonetsk city administration, said that “massive shelling“ destroyed a third bridge in the key eastern Ukrainian city, “but the city is not isolated. There are communication channels even if they are quite complicated,“ Stryuk told Ukrainian television. He said Ukrainian forces “continue to defend the city“ after the bridge over the Siverskyi Donets River, linking the city to Ukrainian-controlled Lysychansk, was destroyed. The British Defense Ministry said in its regular intelligence report that Russian forces likely made “small advances“ in the northeastern Kharkiv for the first time in weeks. The report added that the city of Sievierodonetsk in the eastern Donbas region remains the main focus of Russia in its war in Ukraine. Acco