The dead include two people sheltering in a school basement, Serhiy Haiday said, adding that three people had also been wounded when Russians fired on the school.
Two people died on the spot, three more were hospitalized. Two killed and one wounded are members of the same family, Haiday said in a statement on Telegram.
Residents of Severodonetsk had been hiding since the beginning of the war, according to Haiday.
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Two women were killed by Russian shelling in Lysychansk and Privillia, and a man and a woman died near their house in Severodonetsk, he said, without specifying how they died.
The Russians "has dedicated full force and efforts into the assault on Severodonetsk and cutting off the Lysychansk-Bakhmut route, so that we can’t evacuate people, deliver the humanitarian aid or deliver any supplies or ammunition to our defenders," the official added.
