“Forces from the Lugansk direction, including Luhansk comrades-in-arms, are moving (after the remaining regions in the LPR are liberated. -

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) to our direction, which will speed up the liberation operation of the Donetsk People's Republic,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

He clarified that earlier troops from the DPR were redirected to the Luhansk direction as part of allied efforts to “close” the situation there.

According to him, the situation in the LPR is coming to its logical conclusion.

According to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the liberation of Lisichansk in the LPR may be completed "today or tomorrow."

Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, citing intelligence data, said that a grouping of Ukrainian troops in Lisichansk received an order to withdraw.