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Russia is conducting a general offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
They advanced to a key point with major supply routes, and a French journalist covering the area was also killed.
Correspondent Kim Hye-min.
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Severodonetsk, a key point in Donbas, eastern Ukraine.
Russia is known to have advanced to the center of the area and destroyed critical infrastructure.
[Volodimir Zelensky/President of Ukraine: (Severodonetsk) 90% of the buildings were damaged and more than two-thirds of the residential houses were completely destroyed.]
The city was the main supply route for the Ukrainian army, and if it fell to Russia, A huge setback in supply is expected, and there is even a forecast that the Ukrainian military will have no choice but to withdraw from Luhansk Oblast.
Yesterday (30th) local time, a foreign correspondent who was covering in the Severodonetsk region also died.
French journalist Frederick Leclerc Imhoff was killed by shells while boarding a bus with refugees escaping from shelling.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden denounced Russia's war of aggression at a ceremony held on Memorial Day in the United States.
[Joe Biden/President of the United States: At this moment as Russia wages another war of aggression to destroy Ukraine's freedom, democracy, culture and identity, we clearly see Ukraine in peril.]
"Freedom is not free, we need a defender to protect democracy," he said.