According to him, at the moment, priority work is being carried out on this sector of the front to suppress the activities of the DRG.

The situation in the Lisichansk direction, as Filiponenko explained, remains stably tense.

On December 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation in the LPR is still very difficult.

On December 22, the acting head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attempting counteroffensives in the Donbass, but Russian troops are effectively repelling them.