Russian forces shift target to Donetsk as Zelenskyy vows Ukraine will win back captured Luhansk

A grain silo destroyed by Russian airstrikes in the Donbas.

After several weeks of brutal fighting in eastern Luhansk province, troops from Russia and Ukraine were able to liberate the area. Many people have been killed, but the full death toll is not known.

Russian forces are looking to capture more parts of the neighboring region of the Donbas, with the province coming under heavy shelling on Sunday.

The head of the DONETSK province said it was a difficult Sunday in the region with rocket strikes and shelling.

The governor of Luhansk expects Russian forces to focus their attacks on a city that was the first to be seized by Russian-backed forces in the war. Three months later, it was taken back by the Ukrainians.

The city of Bakhmut is a target for Russia.

There have been sporadic fighting between Ukrainian and pro-Russian troops in Luhansk and the rest of the Donbas for a long time. The capture of the Donbas is a priority for Russia.

A destroyed Community Art Center in the wake of a strike in the city of Lysychansk in the Donbas on June 17, 2022.

The main goal of the war is to liberate the Donbas region in east Ukraine, according to Russia.

The soldiers say they are outmatched by the Russians. Russia has gained a significant advantage in the Donbas in the past few weeks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed that his country will regain its lost territory.

Zelenskyy said that if the commanders of the army withdraw people from certain points at the front, where the enemy has the greatest advantage in fire power, it means only one thing.

The increase in the supply of modern weapons will allow us to return.

Soldiers ride on a tank as it is hauled down the highway on June 20, 2022 near Bakhmut, Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said that Russia had enough rocket launch systems to destroy the cities of Ukraine and that they had gathered most of their firepower in the area.

The president said that protecting the lives of our soldiers is an equally important role. We will rebuild the walls and win back the land.

Several international government, private sector and NGOs met in Switzerland on Monday to discuss the creation of aMarshall Plan forUkraine's reconstruction.

Denys Shmyhal, the Prime Minister of the country, said that the country would need $750 billion to recover from Russia.

According to Shmyhal, the Russian invasion has caused more than $100 billion in damage to Ukrainian infrastructure. The war has been going on for five months and is likely to continue.

Zelenskyy told the conference attendees that there was a lot of work to be done to reconstruct the areas that were taken back from the Russians. Over 2,000 villages and towns in the east and south of Ukraine will have to be freed.