{"id":1496949,"date":"2022-05-30T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496949"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:59:50","slug":"zelensky-suggests-donbas-could-fall-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-suggests-donbas-could-fall-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Suggests Donbas Could Fall Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzelensky-suggests-donbas-could-fall-soon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-volodymyr-zelenskyy\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> said the Donbas region in Eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> could soon fall to Russian forces, giving his most grim assessment yet.<\/p>\n<p>In a video address over the weekend, Zelenskyy said that conditions in Donbas have grown \u201cindescribably difficult\u201d and suggested the region could fall to Russia. Since the 2014 color revolution in Kyiv, pro-Russian forces have controlled parts of Donestk and Lugansk and sporadic fighting has erupted over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut our defense holds on,\u201d Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/ukraine-crisis-zelensky-says-situation-indescribably-difficult-in-donbas-and-kharkiv-483058\">told<\/a> the public. \u201cIt\u2019s indescribably difficult there. And I am grateful to all those who withstand this onslaught of the occupiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in the Donbas city of\u00a0Sievierodonetsk as\u00a0Moscow\u2019s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds for conquering the region.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian regional officials reported Russian forces \u201cstorming\u201d Sievierodonetsk after trying unsuccessfully to encircle the city. The fighting knocked out power and cellphone service, and a humanitarian relief center could not operate due to the danger, the mayor said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4495335\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/05\/27\/GettyImages-1240916384-e1653619090253-1200x660-1-1200x660.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4495335 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/05\/27\/GettyImages-1240916384-e1653619090253-1200x660-1-1200x660.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Sievierodonetsk\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Sievierodonetsk, during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on May 26, 2022, amid Russia\u2019s military invasion launched on Ukraine. (Aris Messinis\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Sievierodonetsk, located about 89 miles south of the Russian border, emerged in recent days as the epicenter of Moscow\u2019s quest to capture all of Ukraine\u2019s industrial Donbas region. Russia also stepped up its efforts to take nearby Lysychansk, where civilians rushed to escape persistent shelling.<\/p>\n<p>Sievierodonetsk Mayor Oleksandr Striuk said there was fighting at the city\u2019s bus station on Saturday. Residents remaining in the city, which had a prewar population of around 100,000, risked exposure to shelling to get water from a half-dozen wells, and there was no electricity or cellphone service, Striuk said.<\/p>\n<p>The two eastern cities span the strategically important Siverskiy Donetsk river. They are the last major areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, which makes up Donbas together with neighboring Donetsk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the occupiers think that Lyman or Sievierodonetsk will be theirs, they are wrong. Donbas will be Ukrainian,\u201d Zelenskyy said during his nighttime address.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Russian Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, meanwhile, told state-run media that Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk six times overnight on Saturday and Sunday. Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense also <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/russia\/1457247\">claimed<\/a> that the town of Krasny Liman was taken from its forces on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the joint actions of the people\u2019s militia units of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic and the Russian armed forces, the city of Krasny Liman was completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists,\u201d Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said, according to the TASS news agency.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine could soon fall to Russian forces, giving his most grim assessment yet.In a video address over the weekend, Zelenskyy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}