“The Ukrainian troops have no communication routes between Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, since we control ... a bridge where it was possible to pass on large heavy military equipment,” he said, TASS quoted him as saying.

The tactical and technical characteristics of the means of observation and detection in service with the LPR cover the entire territory of the republic, Marochko stressed.

On May 25, Andrei Marochko reported that the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR and Russia took Severodonetsk under operational encirclement.

He also noted that the People's Militia cut off the communication lines, "by which the Armed Forces of Ukraine could get out."

According to the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic Vitaly Kiselyov, the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Lisichansk in the LPR is up to 6 thousand people, near Severodonetsk - up to 4 thousand.