Ukraine forces pushed back from city center of Severodonetsk

• Soldiers have retreated from Severodonetsk.
• Russia took lead during the night.
• Both sides’ soldiers are in pursuit.

Ukraine announced on Monday that its soldiers have retreated from the city center of Severodonetsk, where conflict with Russia has raged for several weeks.

“With artillery assistance, the enemy conducted assault operations in the city of Severodonetsk, partially succeeded, and forced our soldiers away from the city centre,” the Ukrainian military stated on Facebook.

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Sergiy Gaiday, the local governor, stated that “the Russians had some success at night” in the city.

They “pushed our troops out of the city’s centre and are continuing to destroy it,” he wrote on Facebook.

Gaiday stated that Moscow was “accumulating more and more equipment” to encircle Severodonetsk and neighbouring Lysychansk.

A six-year-old kid was among the three people killed by shelling in Lysychansk, across the river from Severodonetsk, in the past 24 hours.

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In Severodonetsk, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are fighting over “literally every metre,” according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who made this statement late on Sunday.