May 27,2022:Mayor of the eastern city of Severodonetsk claims at least 1,500 people have been killed and around 60 percent of residential buildings destroyed.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s offensive in Donbas could leave the eastern region “uninhabited” and that Moscow’s forces want to turn cities like Popasna, Lysychansk and Severodonetsk to ashes.
To the northwest of the Donbas, shelling killed nine people in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Thursday, including a five-month-old child, and wounded another 19, Zelenskyy says.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba states that Kyiv will not be able to counter Russia’s offensive without more heavy weapons.
US officials say the Biden administration is considering supplying Kyiv with the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which can have a range of hundreds of kilometres.
Ukraine:Severodonetsk mayor says 1,500 killed
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