“Official information has just arrived from the front, confirming that the VFU group, located in Gorsky and Zolote (LPR), is completely surrounded,” he wrote in his Telegram.
Earlier, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the LPR Vitaly Kiselyov said that about 1.3 thousand Ukrainian military and mercenaries were surrounded in the area of Gorsky and Zolotoy south of Lysichansk.
According to the republic's ambassador to Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, there are up to 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Lisichansk.