“Now they (Ukrainian troops. -

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) are basically trying to retreat from Seversk to Soledar, we don’t let them do this, we keep them on the same level.

We hit, we destroy, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

He stressed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively trying to do this, but they are not succeeding.

Earlier, intelligence of the Luhansk People's Republic reported on foreign instructors in the area of ​​Soledar and Artyomovsk in the Donbass.

It was also reported that the forces of Russia, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics are advancing from several directions in the Soledar area.

On July 15, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, reported that almost all the escape routes of Ukrainian troops from Soledar and Seversk were in the zone of fire damage.