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Morning news brief: Zelenskiy adviser concedes last eastern Ukraine bastion could fall and more

Morning news brief: Zelenskiy adviser concedes last eastern Ukraine bastion could fall and more

Morning news brief 

Lysychansk, Ukraine's last big bastion in the strategic eastern province of Luhansk, is in the midst of an intense battle as both the Ukraine and Russian forces are locked in a stand-off to lay claim to the strategic eastern city.

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Andrei Marochko, an officer of the pro-Russian Luhansk People’s Militia, was quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency on Saturday as saying that the militia’s red hammer-and-sickle flag was now flying over the administrative building in Lysychansk. However, Ukraine’s military rejected claims that the city was encircled.

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