“We can already say that a third of the city is under our control,” Pasechnik is quoted by TASS.

According to him, now the fighting is going on in urban areas.

He noted that the liberation of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk is the main task of the LNR forces.

Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that about 70% of the residential sector of Severodonetsk had been checked and cleared of mines.