Over the past month, the town has become the pivotal battleground of the Russia-Ukraine war. We explain why
in Luhansk province, one half of the Donbas region, had a pre-war population of just over 100,000. It did not even rank in Ukraine’s 40 largest towns and cities. Yet over the past month it has become the pivotal battleground of the Russia-Ukraine war. Russian troops. Ukrainian defenders and several hundred civilians, pounded by artillery, cling on in the Azot industrial plant in the west.
Severodonetsk lies at the eastern edge of that pocket and is the gateway to the north-east of Donetsk province, the other part of Donbas. It is an easier target for Russia because Ukrainian forces deeper in the salient have less coverage from air defences and artillery. Conquering it along with Lysychansk would open a path west to Slovyansk, theto Russian proxies in 2014, and Kramatorsk, an industrial centre. Russia has been attacking Slovyansk from the north, but has struggled to break through.
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