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KYIV: Ukrainian troops were engaged in fierce street fighting with Russian soldiers in the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, while other towns were under constant shelling, as the Kremlin pushed for control of the eastern Donbas region.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said his troops have won back half of the city of Severodonetsk from Kremlin soldiers amid a Russian offensive in the region of Luhansk

Ukrainian forces have beaten back Russian units to control about half of the flashpoint eastern city of Severodonetsk, according to local officials. President Volodymyr Zelensky has, meanwhile, been visiting the front lines to support Ukraine's "true heroes".

This is the moment Ukrainian soldiers blitz a column of Russian tanks trundling through a Donbas town and obliterate at least one.

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Ukrainian troops have beaten back Russian forces to control half of a flashpoint eastern city, local officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the front lines to support his country's "true heroes". As the see-saw battle raged on for the strategically important city of Severodonetsk -- the largest in the…

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Russia struck Ukraine's capital Kyiv with missiles early on Sunday for the first time in more than a month, while Ukrainian officials said a counter-attack on the main battlefield in the east had retaken half of the city of Sievierodonetsk.