“A group of Russian volunteers from the Chechen Republic under the command of the brave commander of one of the Akhmat special forces units with the call sign Okhotnik completely took control of the entire line of contact with bandits in the city of Severodonetsk, LPR,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

He said that the Ukrainian militants were blocked in the city, the escape routes were under the control of Russian troops.

Earlier, an officer of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Andrei Marochko, said that the LPR forces had cut off all retreat routes for the Ukrainian security forces.