“About 500 Armed Forces of Ukraine and 74 mercenaries left Lisichansk for the Seversk region that night,” Kiselyov wrote on Telegram.
According to him, there are currently six battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Seversk.
Earlier, Kiselyov said that mercenaries from American private military companies (PMCs) fully control the actions of the Ukrainian group, which is stationed in Seversk.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR reported that the highway connecting Artyomovsk and Lisichansk was blocked by allied forces.
It also became known that more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed near Lisichansk, officers were taken prisoner.