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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Russia shells frontline positions as fighting focuses on Donbas city

A man walks amid debris of a residential building damaged by a military strike in Severodonetsk, Luhansk
A man walks amid debris of a residential building damaged by a military strike in Severodonetsk, Luhansk. Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters

Russian forces have shelled frontline positions in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas area as fighting becomes increasingly focused on Severodonetsk, the easternmost city still held by Ukrainian forces after more than 11 weeks of war.

Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk region, said on Monday that Russian strikes had hit a hospital in the city over the weekend, killing two and injuring nine, including a child – and several other locations had been targeted.

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