“At Azot, militants are trying to disrupt the evacuation!” Miroshnik wrote on Telegram.
He said that from the territory of the plant, the militants began shelling from a mortar and a tank.
Earlier, the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko, announced the opening of a humanitarian corridor for the exit of civilians from the Azot enterprise in Severodonetsk.
According to Vitaly Kiselyov, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the LPR, there may be about 2,500 militants on the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.