It has been more than two weeks since any food, water, or medicine has arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium, and the situation "gets worse" by the day, an official told CNN on Tuesday.
Max Strelnyk, a deputy in the Izium city council's office, has been keeping CNN apprised of what is going on in the area. "There's been no pause in the bombing — it started weeks ago — by the Russians," Strelnyk said. He told CNN that while Russia has claimed it will "decrease military operations in the Kyiv and Chernihiv oblasts, Izium and the greater Kharkiv region will have no such luck."
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