In recent days, Russian forces have made gains around Sievierodonetsk and the neighboring city of Lysychansk ... said Ukrainian troops have been ordered to leave Sievierodonetsk to prevent ...

Weeks of ferocious artillery barrages have devastated urban and rural areas, leaving an unknown number of people dead and injured. Lysychansk ... be one of the last to leave Severodonetsk ...

Serhai Haidai says control over some settlements had switched several times; 350,000 people urged to leave Donetsk The ... continues in the villages around Lysychansk. On Telegram, Serhai Haidai ...

Soldiers in east Ukraine have been under heavy bombardment for weeks Ukrainian forces have been ordered ... would leave all of Luhansk under Russian control, except for the city of Lysychansk.

“It was very difficult to convince people to leave,” Stryuk said ... The war had eroded Lysychansk to a tenacious core, but a remarkable sense of order and organization persevered.

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday acknowledged Kyiv's forces had withdrawn from Lysychansk ... order to give it to the self-proclaimed Russian-backed Luhansk People ...

"The more people leave (the) Donetsk region now ... Just to the north of Lysychansk, which Moscow's forces captured in early July after weeks of fighting, Ukrainian partisans destroyed a railway ...

The Ukrainian government has ordered the mandatory ... the hundreds of thousands of people still in combat zones in the larger Donbas region, which contains Donetsk as well as the neighbouring Luhansk ...

Pavlo Kyrylenko said that getting the 350,000 people remaining in Donetsk province ... military registration and enlistment office in order to leave their place of residence.