“I think in about three weeks we will clear the city completely,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Skory added that at the moment about 60-65% of Lisichansk has been cleared of mines.

In August, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that the complete demining of the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic would take about 20 years.