Russian forces on Thursday are grinding closer to taking a key Ukrainian city after days of intense fighting, tightening their slow squeeze on the eastern Donbas region.
"Street fighting continues," said Luhansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday on Telegram, pledging Ukrainian forces "will fight for Severodonetsk until the end".
Russian forces engaged in Ukraine have dropped to a little over half of their pre-war strength as the war moves to a more attritional struggle, western officials said on Wednesday.
“We started perhaps with a narrative from the Russians of sort of lightning war and we've now moved to a grinding, more attritional, struggle,” a western official said. “I think people's ideas of the amount of time for this [conflict] have changed."
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