Russian attacks have left Ukraine’s Severodonetsk ‘completely ruined,’ says mayor

Tens of thousands flee as Russian artillery destroys 90% of eastern city’s buildings.
Russian troops pushed farther into a key Eastern Ukrainian city and fought street by street with Kyiv’s forces Monday in a battle the mayor said has left the city in ruins and driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. The Russian focus on Severodonetsk has already left the city “completely ruined,” Mayor Oleksandr Striuk said.              Artillery barrages have destroyed critical infrastructure and damaged 90 per cent of the buildings, and power and communications have been largely cut to a city that was once home to 100,000 people. “The number of victims is rising every hour, but we are unable to count the dead and the wounded amid the street fighting,” Striuk told The Associated Press in a phone interview, adding that Moscow’s troops advanced a few more blocks toward the city centre….Source:cbc.ca