Battle for Severodonetsk is terrifying  

Battle for Severodonetsk is terrifying - Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been speaking about Severodonetsk, the strategically important city in the east that Russian forces are close to fully occupying.

"The human cost of this battle is very high for us. It is simply terrifying," Zelensky says on Telegram in his daily address to the Ukrainian people.

Qazet.az reports that all three bridges leading to the city have been destroyed, the regional governor reported earlier this evening.

Ukrainian troops remaining in the city must "surrender or die", a military representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic has said.