The head of the Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik also expects the complete encirclement of Lisichansk in the next two or three days
Chemical plant “Nitrogen” in Severodonetsk
Luhansk People’s Militia continues fighting for the industrial zone of the chemical plant “Azot” in Severodonetsk and in the near future this territory will be taken under control, the head of the Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“Today, the Luhansk People’s Militia continues fighting for the industrial zone of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk. According to the reports that I receive, we hope that the industrial zone will be liberated in the near future,” he said.
The beekeeper also said that in the next two or three days the ring around Lisichansk, where Ukrainian forces remain, will be completely closed.
“I don’t want to reveal any secrets of the military, but I hope Lisichansk will be cleared of Ukrainian nationalists very soon,” he said.
The official representative of the People’s Militia of the LPR, Andriy Marochko, said that the Ukrainian military are surrendering en masse in the area of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, among them mostly privates and “not a single officer”. According to him, the Ukrainian command retreated on the eve of the encirclement.
“Now, across the entire front line in this area, both locally and en masse, surrender is taking place. This also applies to the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk grouping, this also applies to the Gorsko-Zolotovskaya grouping,” Marochko said in the program “Time will tell” on the “First Channel”.
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Russian troops and LPR forces took control of Severodonetsk (since 2014 it has been the regional center of the Luhansk region of Ukraine instead of Lugansk) at the end of May, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov reported. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the residential quarters of the city “have been liberated”, but the Ukrainian military remain in industrial zones, including on the territory of the largest chemical plant in Ukraine “Nitrogen”.
Lysychansk is located southwest of Severodonetsk and remains the last major city within the borders of the Luhansk region of Ukraine that is not under the control of the LPR. The republic’s ambassador to Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, said earlier that the People’s Militia took control of the only road from Seversk, which is controlled by Kiev, to Lisichansk, cutting off 5-7 thousand Ukrainian military from supplies.
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