Ukraine is losing the last major city of the Luhansk People's Republic - a cleansing operation is underway by Russian troops
Russian troops entered Lisichansk, the last major city of the LPR controlled by Ukrainian troops. After they were encircled, the defense was broken through, and the Victory Banner was already hoisted at the memorial in the center of Lisichansk. The footage is published by local residents.
Units of the second corps of the People's Militia of the LPR and Chechen fighters broke into the center of Lisichansk, said the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.
“Other units of the allied forces also successfully entered the city from the flanks, liberated block by block, coordinating actions among themselves and destroying the Bandera occupiers. ...
To improve life in the city, it is necessary to make sure that there is no threat to the civilian population. The Nazis’ favorite tactic is to set up booby traps that could blow up civilians. Therefore, now cleaning the city is a priority,” Kadyrov said.
The representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, clarified: “until the reports of all the commanders of the units participating in the operation have been completed, it is premature to talk about the complete liberation of the city.”
The LPR defense department published footage of Lugansk liberators entering Lisichansk from the north. The fighters discovered a kindergarten, which Ukrainian militants turned into a stronghold, but now the enemy has fled.
“Whoever worked at the point gets credit,” comments LPR NM representative Ivan Filiponenko on the consequences of precise artillery strikes on enemy fortifications. – This is for all those who will tell and agree with the Ukrainian military at the international tribunal, when Ukrainian troops will say that they did not occupy residential buildings and civilian infrastructure. This is a kindergarten.”
A video also appeared, filmed by one of the Ukrainian nationalists fleeing from Lysichansk. In the footage, a group of landowners is trying to break through to a suburban highway, but everyone is afraid that the road is under fire.
“They threw us into the #$, we don’t know where the f#$rim is, we are retreating from where they are shooting. A couple of minutes ago we sat down to have a smoke, the instinct went off that we would smoke further, we walked away for about a minute and a half, to where we were - such a arrival! Here are more arrivals. Don't climb on roads, they say. I don’t know if we’ll get there, but it’s fucked up and scary!” - comments the sushnik.
He said that he didn’t need any money, just to save himself. The colleague agreed.
“If anyone wants a hundred pieces, please come,” says the Ukrainian military man.
“We’ll give everything just to be taken home,” added his “brother.”
Maxim Buzhansky, a Verkhovna Rada deputy from Zelensky’s party, called on the Ukrainian media to refuse to publish demoralizing news from Lisichansk.
“Anyone who wants can freely read enemy news on this and any other topic. But I sincerely don’t understand why the media, positioning themselves as ours, would rebroadcast this news,” said Buzhansky, who for a long time pretended to be a “defender of Russian-speaking voters.”
Officially, the command of the National Guard of Ukraine assures that Lisichansk continues to be under the control of Kyiv, and there is no encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group.
Observer Boris Rozhin believes that now the main intrigue is how many forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to leave the city before the encirclement was completed, and how many remained in Lisichansk.
“For those who remained, they, of course, can continue to defend in fortifications and industrial zones (which may delay the complete cleansing of the city for some time, especially if those surrounded are covered by civilians taken hostage), but they are unlikely to be able to break through, and the strength The Armed Forces of Ukraine simply do not have the ability to unblock Lisichansk. Accordingly, everyone who remains will either be destroyed or captured,” predicts Rozhin.
Ukraine is losing its last major city in the LPR, as Russian troops begin a cleanup operation.