“The enemy tried to force the Seversky Donets River, this attempt failed because the pontoon crossing was destroyed by our troops,” TASS quoted him as saying.

According to Marochko, the military is currently liberating Severodonetsk.

“And we are already working in Lisichansk,” he concluded.

Earlier, the Ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic in Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, in the RT stream "Letuchka" said that Severodonetsk is almost completely controlled by the forces of the republic and Russia.

According to him, fighting is already underway on the outskirts of Lisichansk.