According to the LPR People’s Police, a truck was blown up at the contact line near Popasnaya.

“As a result of a Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle hitting a TM-62 anti-tank mine, junior sergeant Kuchev and Litvin soldier died on the spot, and the platoon commander, junior lieutenant Matveyev, died while evacuating to a medical facility,” Yakov Osadchiy, representative of the LPR Defense Ministry, quotes RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik addressed the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.