“The left side of the Seversky Donets is free.
Now Severodonetsk, Borovskoye, Sirotino - it's all cleaned up.
Severodonetsk airport has been cleared, Lesnaya Dacha, all small settlements around Severodonetsk are free, ”TASS quotes him.
He also said that the LPR fighters were already in the industrial zone in the south of Lisichansk - an operation was underway from the south.
At the same time, the military personnel of the republic are evacuating civilians in Severodonetsk.
Approximately a third of those evacuated from the Azot plant in Severodonetsk refused to leave the city.