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| 500 Ukrainian soldiers and 74 mercenaries left Lisichansk for Seversk |
| 2022-06-30 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] About 500 Ukrainian soldiers and 74 mercenaries left Lisichansk overnight for the Seversk region, Vitaly Kiselyov, assistant head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People's Republic, said on his Telegram channel. “At the moment, there are six battalions of Ukrainian troops in Seversk, and foreigners are also arriving. The personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine live in “abandoned houses” and apartments,” he wrote. According to Kisilev, some battalions are going to leave the city in the near future. Mercenaries from Poland and Georgia spotted in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. "Since April 28, there has been no water, no gas, no electricity. People communicate with the help of Kyivstar and Life. They charge batteries with a generator, but only if they produce gasoline," the assistant to the head of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs concluded. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years." The DPR has already liberated Volnovakha , a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and Svyatogorsk, where a large Orthodox monastery with the status of a lavra is located. In the LPR, almost the entire territory of the republic was liberated, with the exception of Lisichansk. Russian troops cut the last road connecting the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Seversk [RIA Novosti] In Lisichansk, a group of Russian troops "O" ("Brave") actually cut the last major road connecting the Ukrainian military with the "mainland", RIA Novosti correspondent reports citing a military source. As the interlocutor of the agency clarified, we are talking about the city of Seversk in the Bakhmut district. "Already now we can talk about the operational encirclement of the enemy in Lisichansk," he said. At the same time, according to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to stop the offensive of the Russian army and are actively mining the fields and forest plantations around Lysychansk with the help of the PFM-1 "Lepestok" (Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention in 2005, which prohibits the use, accumulation and production of anti-personnel mines. In addition, the enemy is conducting intensive shelling, anti-tank crews are operating, but the Russian military continues to move forward, the source said. Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces reported that they had taken control of an oil refinery 16 kilometers southwest of Lisichansk and liberated the neighboring village of Topolevka, Popasnyansky district. |
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