“Good news: our troops successfully entered the city limits of Seversk ... and forced the Armed Forces of Ukraine to flee in different directions ... It seems that in a couple of days Seversk will be free,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, expressed confidence that the allied forces of Russia, the DPR and the LPR would soon enter the administrative borders of the republic.