“They are holding about 600 civilians hostage,” TASS quoted him as saying.
On June 21, Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic to Russia, reported that about 20 civilians left the Azot plant in Severodonetsk through a checkpoint not controlled by the Ukrainian military.
Prior to this, an officer of the People's Militia of the Republic, Andrei Marochko, said that some civilians were able to leave the Azot plant in Severodonetsk with the help of tricks or "by a lucky chance."