The Ukrainian city of Lysychansk is about to capitulate

Apparently, the next defeat of the Ukrainian army is imminent in the country's Easter. According to their own statements, the Russian military is advancing in the heavily contested city of Lysychansk.

The oil refinery in the city in the Luhansk region is now under Russian and pro-Russian control, says Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov in Moscow.

The Ukrainian side, on the other hand, continued to describe the refinery site as contested in the morning. The Ukrainians are suffering heavy casualties in and around Lysychansk, says Konashenkov. Most recently, around 200 enemy soldiers were killed every day. "A disorganized withdrawal of individual units of the Ukrainian armed forces from Lysychansk can be observed." This information cannot be independently verified.

Lysychansk is the last major place in Luhansk Oblast still held by Ukrainian troops. The conquest of the area is one of Moscow's declared war aims. There is also fighting in the suburbs of the big city. The General Staff reports that the Russian attempt to bring part of the Bakhmut-Lysychansk supply route under control has failed.

At the same time, according to Ukrainian information, the Russian troops have increased their military activities in the direction of Kramatorsk. The city of Kramatorsk is the southern point of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk conurbation, which had around half a million inhabitants before the war.