INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
and humanitarian deliveries to and from Severodonetsk had been suspended, he added.Gaiday said earlier Tuesday that 90% of the city had been
destroyed after weeks of relentless shelling.A Luhansk police official cited by Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti over the
weekend said Severodonetsk was "now surrounded" and Ukrainian troops could no longer leave the city.Severodonetsk, which had a pre-war
population of around 100,000, is one of several important urban hubs that lie on Russia's path to capturing the entire Luhansk region and
east Ukraine's de-facto administrative center, Kramatorsk
announced the transfer of longer-range high-precision missile systems to Ukraine.AFP contributed reporting.
