Ukraine fights for 'every house and every street' in Severodonetsk

 

According to a Ukrainian commander, the struggle for Severodonetsk is being fought house by house.

 

Soldiers are waiting for a delivery of heavy weaponry that will "turn the tide," according to Petro Kuzyk, commander of the Svoboda [Freedom] National Guard battalion.

 

According to Reuters, he claimed that street warfare in the small industrial eastern city was raging at times under massive Russian artillery barrages, endangering troops on both sides.

 

"We battle for every house and every street," Kuzyk said.

 

"Yesterday was successful for us. We went on a counterattack and in some areas we managed to push those [Russian soldiers] back by one or two blocks. In others we pushed them back literally by one or two houses."

 

The commander said Ukraine's forces had a "catastrophic" lack of systems to counter Russian artillery and needed "serious technology", or heavy weapons, to strike back.