“The divisions of the defense department, together with the allied forces, completely liberated the Azot plant.
At the moment, the units of the NM LPR are evacuating civilians from Severodonetsk, who were hostages of the nationalists at the plant, ”the department’s Telegram channel quotes Filiponenko.
He added that over the past day, during clashes with units of the LPR forces, the Ukrainian army lost 40 servicemen, five armored personnel carriers, and four vehicles.
Earlier, the Ambassador of the Lugansk People's Republic in Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, said that during the evacuation of the population from the Azot plant, it became known that hundreds more civilians could be on the territory of the enterprise.