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Russian bombardment has turned Ukraine’s Donbas into ‘hell,’ Zelenskyy says

Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin stands and listens translator's words in the defendant's box during his trial on charges of war crimes for having killed a civilian at the Court of Appeal in Kyiv, on May 20, 2022.- The lawyer for the first Russian soldier on trial in Ukraine said in closing arguments Friday that his client was "not guilty" of premeditated murder...

KYIV, Ukraine — With its grip tightened along the southern coast, Russia redoubled its assault on Ukraine’s Donbas region Friday, turning parts of the country’s eastern industrial heartland into “hell,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

At least a dozen people were killed and scores of homes destroyed in the area of Severodonetsk, regional Gov. Serhiy Haidai said on social media, an assertion that could not be independently verified. Severodonetsk is the easternmost point of the Donbas still in Ukrainian hands after 12 weeks of the current war and a longer fight in the region, dating back to 2014, between pro-Kyiv forces and Moscow-backed secessionists.

The nearby city of Lysychansk also came under sustained fire, the Ukrainian military’s General Staff said, adding that its troops had repelled a

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