It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the People's Militia of the LPR.

“The bridge that leads from the city of Pervomaisk to Katerynivka is also a Ukrainian checkpoint.

During our first offensive, this bridge was blown up by the Ukrainian invaders and made it difficult for our troops to move forward, but did not stop, we went the other way, ”the agency’s interlocutor explained.

Earlier, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said that the entire left-bank territory of the Seversky Donets within the borders of the Lugansk People's Republic came under its full control.