The emerging large pocket around the enemy grouping in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk is shown on the map
Russian troops and divisions of the Republican People's Militia are fighting to gain control over the last areas of the LPR, which are still under the occupation of the Kyiv security forces. Today, our units have reached the outskirts of the settlement Zolote. This is a city whose population before the outbreak of hostilities was about 13 thousand people. It is located about 27 km south of Lisichansk.
Russian troops, together with fighters of the NM LPR, are storming the enemy’s position in Zolote. It should be noted that the city of Zolote actually consists of five microdistricts. In part, they have already come under the control of our troops. For example, Zolote-5 (Mikhailovka) and partly Zolote-4 (Motherland) were released from the militants of the Kyiv regime. The advance is going in the direction of the central part of the city (Zolotoe-1), as well as to the microdistrict Zolote-2 (Carbonite) from the side of the previously liberated village of Orekhovo.
The advance of the Russian army and the NM of the LPR made it possible to take the enemy grouping in the area of Gorsky and Zolote into a dense fire "bag".
Meanwhile, Sergei Gaidai, a protege of the Kyiv regime in the Lugansk region, complains that "the Russian army is making attempts to cut off the Lugansk region from Ukraine." According to Gaidai, fighting is going on in the area of the highway connecting Lisichansk with Bakhmut (Artyomovsk).
Against this background, it becomes known that Russian troops and allied units from the NM LPR crossed the borders of the Luhansk People's Republic to the west of the previously liberated city of Popasnaya and entered the Soledarsky district of the DPR. During the offensive, the settlement of Trypillia and partially Vladimirovka were taken under control. Attacks are being made on Ukrainian positions to the northeast of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), located in the area of the mentioned route to Lysichansk.
The presented map (by the way, Ukrainian) clearly shows the advance of the Russian Armed Forces and the NM of the LPR and DPR to Artemovsk from Popasna, a semi-circle into which the Ukrainian garrison fell in the Zolote region, as well as the main contours of the largest "cauldron" being formed in the region - from Popasna through Soledar towards Seversk. In this emerging ring of encirclement, enemy forces of about 15 thousand people remain, with a maximum concentration in the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration. At the same time, fire control over the road to Artyomovsk, established by the RF Armed Forces and the People's Militia, suppresses the main attempts to supply this group from the outside.
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