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Daniel Keane

Severodonetsk and Lysychansk are ‘dead cities’ after Russian shelling, says President Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, poses for a photo with serviceman close to the front line in Donetsk region

(Picture: AP)

Intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces has turned Severodonetsk and Lysychansk into “dead cities”, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.

Mr Zelensky said that Russian forces had a numerical advantage in the besieged eastern cities, but that Ukraine’s forces had “every chance” of fighting back.

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