Ukraine calls for cease-fire to evacuate civilians from Sievierodonetsk chemical plant

 

A Russian air strike killed four people in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Lysychansk, local residents said. The strike on a cultural center killed a mother and daughter, as well as a young man and a bedridden woman who had moved there to shelter from her home in Severodonetsk.

Ukraine pleads for more heavy weapons from West

 

Russian soldiers have surrounded the city of Sievierodonetsk. In a chemical plant in the city, Ukrainian soldiers are holding out, while some 500 civilians are believed to be sheltering inside, she added, recalling scenes from the Mariupol steel plant. Russian forces are also bombarding Sievierodonetsk's sister-city Lysychansk, where civilians were being taken in recent days.