The Moscow-Kyiv conflict has entered its 119th day. Russian soldiers have taken control of Toshkivka, a frontline settlement near the Donbas region’s twin cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.

Roman Vlasenko, the chief of the Sievierodonetsk district military administration, said that the fight for Donbas is “now in full swing”, and the entire area is “now the epicentre of fighting between Ukraine and the Russian Army”.

With Ukraine claiming Russia’s seizure of Toshkivka, the Kremlin forces have advanced further into Donbass, which has become a brutal, weeks-long battle scene, TRT World reported. Toshkivka, which had a population of roughly 5,000 people before the crisis, is located about 25 km south of Severodonetsk, where Russian soldiers have been fighting Kyiv’s army for weeks.

The Russian military has been ordered to take over the whole Luhansk area by next Sunday, as per Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar. Moscow’s military currently controls around 95% of the territory.

Ukraine’s first deputy minister of foreign affairs stated that Russian troops have fired a rocket into a school in the city of Avdiivka, Donetsk, causing massive fires. On her official Twitter account, Emine Dzheppar posted a video of the school’s roof burning and the Ukrainian flag unfurling amid the smoke and winds. She asserted, “Russian invaders continue destroying, killing and robbing Ukrainian children’s futures”, as per media reports.