KRAMATORSK, Ukraine: Russia pressed its onslaught on eastern Ukraine on Saturday (Sunday in Manila), saying it had captured the strategic town of Lyman and claiming to have surrounded the urban center of Severodonetsk.

"The situation is very difficult, especially in those areas in Donbas and Kharkiv region, where the Russian army is trying to squeeze at least some result for itself," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening address.

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