“The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to concentrate a large number of personnel to take over the Kremensky direction and, most importantly, Svatovsky.

Approximately they plan the offensive for October 18-20.

We have reliable sources who confirmed this, as well as prisoners who also confirmed this information, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

He added that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can make two or three attempts to break through.

Earlier, the head of the representative office of the Luhansk People's Republic in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, said that up to 35 thousand militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated in the Svatovsky direction.