“According to initial estimates, up to 2.5 thousand military personnel are stationed there ... About 20-25% may be directly there by a foreign contingent,” TASS quoted him as saying on Channel One.
The Ambassador of the Lugansk People's Republic in Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, said earlier that civilians began to leave the Severodonetsk Azot plant through a checkpoint not controlled by Ukrainian militants.
According to him, the VSE soldiers who remain at the plant tried to get in touch with the allied forces.
All escape routes are cut off for them, Miroshnik emphasized.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that on Wednesday, June 15, servicemen of Russia and the LPR are opening a humanitarian corridor for the exit of civilians from the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.