“Just ten minutes ago, a message came to me: Novoluganskoye is also ours, our guys have occupied this settlement,” TASS quoted him as saying on the air of the Solovyov Live TV channel.

Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR announced the capture of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant in Svetlodarsk (DPR) under the control of the allied forces of the republics of Donbass and Russia.