“According to our data, somewhere around 5-7 thousand are still in Lisichansk,” TASS quoted him as saying on the air of the “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” program on the Russia 1 TV channel.
Earlier, an officer of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic, Andrei Marochko, said that Ukrainian servicemen were taken into operational encirclement in the areas of the settlements of Zolote and Gorskoye in the LPR.
Also, the Assistant Minister of the Interior of the LPR, Vitaly Kiselyov, said that about 6 thousand military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could be surrounded in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.