[Cathi]

“Citing the number of people who have lost their lives in the defence of Severodonetsk, the governor of Luhansk, Sergey Haidai, says Ukrainians would begin to withdraw from the devastated city amid continuous Russian air and ground assaults.”

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That is looking very difficult to do. The opportunity is gone. Interesting thing in the report linked below is that he acknowledges it cannot be done without big losses; but makes clear that the concern for Ukraine is not the 8,000 trapped soldiers...it is the 700 trapped pieces of important military equipment that they must not lose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZLlm-icVrk

[Cathi]

Delta7 posted this video yesterday. So upsetting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_60oKri-_e0

From an Ukrainian site:

“Ukraine is making a strategic retreat in the Donbass,” writes The World Street Journal.

The strategic retreat from Severodonetsk, Zolote and Gorsky could have been three weeks ago, but it turned out now that the best units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were deliberately ruined for the “picture”. Now, with casualties and captured servicemen already caught on video, this retreat looks rather forced and belated, and the lost units weaken the Ukrainian army. You can’t bring people back, and no one understands what we were given these two weeks in the Severodonetsk industrial complex, we were all convinced that this was symbolism. In reality, there was a simple manipulation with the slogans of saving our people on the Azot, which led to the fact that a group of 8,000 people and 700 pieces of equipment were surrounded.
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