Before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Severodonetsk was a busy industrial city in the eastern Donbas region, boasting a population of 100,000 people on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets river.On Friday, 100 days after the invasion began, the city lay in ruins. Fewer than 15,000 residents remained, most taking shelter amid smoldering buildings while Ukrainian fighters waged a frenzied battle, street by street, against a Russian onslaught.“We’re gonna push the Russians back,” Zurab Kakalidze, a 22-year-old Georgian fighting in Servodonetsk for Ukraine told Reuters on Friday. “It will take a day, a month, or a year. It does not f—ing matter. We are on the right side of history.
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