"In Donbas, the occupiers are trying to increase pressure. There’s hell, and that’s not an exaggeration," Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. "The brutal and absolutely pointless bombing of Severodonetsk … 12 dead and dozens wounded in just one day. The bombing and shelling of other cities, the air and missile strikes of the Russian army – all this is not just hostilities during the war."

Read here There are 12 dead and more than 40 wounded in Severodonetsk

In total for the past 24hrs, on May 20, 6 civilians of Luhansk region were killed. And in Severodonetsk itself – it is reported about 50 destroyed houses were just yesterday.

Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had launched a massive artillery bombardment against Sievierodonetsk, one of the last Ukrainian-held bastions in Luhansk.