“If we take the direction of Lisichansk, then in this direction we have already come close to this settlement, already without optical instruments you can observe this settlement, and, of course, this allows our units to work correctly,” TASS quoted him as saying on the air of the First channel.
Marochko added that the means of detection and reconnaissance completely cover the city.
Earlier, the Ambassador of the Lugansk People's Republic in Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, said that up to 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers were stationed in the city of Lisichansk in the LPR.