
Pro-Russia rebels claim to ‘encircle’ key city, Ukraine denies
Lysychansk is the last major city in Ukraine’s Lugansk region. It is located across the river from neighbouring Severodonetsk, which Russia seized last week. UNESCO has inscribed Ukraine’s tradition of cooking borshch soup on its endangered cultural heritage list. Fighting raged Saturday for Ukraine’s strategically important Lysychansk, as Kiev denied that Moscow-backed Pro-Russia had encircled the eastern city. Clashes have








