[ad_1] <br><div id="body-text"> <p class="body-1 paragraph" data-aa-component="paragraph" data-allow-readmode="">Ukrainian separatists backed by Russia Saturday said they had “completely” encircled the key city of Lysychansk in the eastern Lugansk region.</p><p class="body-1 paragraph" data-aa-component="paragraph" data-allow-readmode="">“Today the Lugansk popular militia and Russian forces occupied the last strategic heights, which allows us to confirm that Lysychansk is completely encircled,” Andrei Marotchko, a spokesman for the separatist forces, told the TASS news agency.</p><p class="body-1 paragraph" data-aa-component="paragraph" data-allow-readmode=""><em>Developing</em></p> </div> <br>[ad_2] <br><a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/07/02/Ukraine-separatists-claim-they-have-encircled-Lysychansk-Reports-">Source link </a>