“The Russians have entered the Kremlin. Street fighting has begun,” said Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk regional military administration, in a brief Facebook post early Monday. The Russians had entered the city with “a huge amount of equipment,” he said. “The attack has begun,” he said. The Russians are trying to break the Ukrainian resistance in the Kremlin and a number of towns in Luhansk as they try to cross the border into both the Luhansk and Donetsk regions – the declared target of President Putin’s “special military mission”. Evacuation was no longer possible, Haidai said. “We planned to evacuate, literally along forest paths, so that people would not come under fire. But during the night the situation changed. While we were fighting [has broken out] “In the city, it is unrealistic to count the civilians who remain there,” he said. Haidai said the Olympus sports facility in Kremina was “burning” and that the fire now covered an area of ​​2,400 square meters. “Rescuers are working hard as there is a forest near the center,” he said. Haidai said elsewhere in the area, two people were killed and four were injured in Zolote, while seven people were pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed in Rubizne. On Sunday night, Russian forces fired on a police building in Lysychansk, Haidai said, injuring six police officers. The bombing continues, he said.