“It should be noted that Ukrainian troops use the infrastructure of the plant for their own military purposes - they hide behind large tanks containing pesticides, dangerous and explosive substances.
This makes it difficult to advance, ”TASS quotes Marochko.
According to him, the units of Russia and the LPR have entrenched themselves in the industrial zone of the Azot plant.
Earlier, the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, said that units of the Lugansk People's Republic entered the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.
According to him, there are up to 1,000 Ukrainian nationalists at the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk.
The representative of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic Andriy Marochko spoke about the situation at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.