'Everything now depends on what (the West) gives us. 'This is an artillery war now,' Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine's deputy head of military intelligence, told Britain's Guardian newspaper. #Ukraine's Deputy Military Intelligence chief Vadym Skibitsky.

Everything now depends on what gives us.' In the #Donbas alone, #Ukraine is firing ~6,000 artillery shells per day - 'we are losing in terms of artillery. That means the tide of events could be turned only if Washington and others fulfil promises to send more and better weaponry, including rocket systems. The war in the east, where Russia is focussing its attention, is now primarily an artillery battle in which Kyiv is severely outgunned, Ukrainian officials say. Ukraine pleaded to Western countries for faster deliveries of weapons as better-armed Russian forces pounded the east of the country. Gaidai said the main road from Bakhmut to Lysychansk/Sievierodonetsk was being constantly shelled but there had been no changes in positions. Ukraine's army command said on Saturday that Russia troops had secured positions in two communities near Sievierodonetsk, while Serhiy Gaidai, the Luhansk governor, said Russians were in control of вЂњmostвЂќ of the city. Russian forces are also pushing from the north and south to try to encircle the Ukrainians, but have made limited progress. Ukrainian troops have largely pulled out of the city's residential areas but have not yielded their foothold on the east bank of the Siverskiy Donets River. Due to heavy bombardments the city is left without water,electricity,gas.Those residents who stayed there,live in basements&bomb shelters #StandWithUkraine /xr5rUzNRFx They can't take it, so they are destroying it. #Russian invaders keep shelling the city. To that end, the Kremlin has concentrated its forces into a battle for Sievierodonetsk, which is in Luhansk.

The two provinces make up the Donbas region, where Moscow has backed a revolt by separatist proxies since 2014. Russia hopes to capture all of the eastern province of Luhansk, which it demands Ukraine cede to separatists along with neighbouring Donetsk. 'These figures are not final, as work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.' (Reuters) 'During the recording of criminal offences, it has become known that 24 more children died in Mariupol, Donetsk region, as a result of the indiscriminate shelling by the Russian military,' the office said on the Telegram messaging app. In total, the office said that at least 287 children have died since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. These three kids in #Mariupol were killed by #Russia soldiers and buried in the yard of a kindergarten /uFbZRHDYRQ The office of Ukraine's prosecutor general said on Saturday that it has learned about the deaths of 24 more children in Mariupol, the southeastern port that was besieged for weeks before Russian forces captured it in mid-May. 'It is on the battlefields in Ukraine that the future rules of this world are being decided.' (Reuters)

'We are definitely going to prevail in this war that Russia has started,' Zelenskiy told a conference in Singapore by videolink. Yet, even when outgunned, Ukraine's army has proved more resilient than expected in early phases of fighting. Ukraine has appealed for swifter deliveries of heavy weapons from the West to turn the tide of the war with Russian forces - which it says have at least 10 times more artillery pieces than Ukrainian forces. Neither side has secured a knock-out blow in fighting that has pounded swathes of the city into rubble. Russian forces have been trying to seize Sievierodonetsk in an eastern advance, turning it into one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy insisted on Saturday that Ukraine would prevail in its almost four-month-long war with Russia that has become focussed on a grinding artillery slugging match over an eastern Ukrainian city.

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