About 16 thousand soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine got into the "cauldron" near Severodonetsk and Lisichansk
According to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People's Republic Vitaly Kiselyov, a group of Ukrainian military numbering 15-16 thousand is located in the area of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. The troops were ordered not to withdraw from their positions, as before in Rubezhnoye, Kiselyov suggests. Meanwhile, the forces of the LPR took control of the village of Orekhovo in the Popasnyansky district. For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru".
Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People's Republic Vitaly Kiselyov announced the capture of 15-16 thousand Ukrainian servicemen in the area of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. "I strongly doubt that there are up to 20 thousand, but there will be 15-16 thousand in full, yes," he answered the corresponding question from a journalist of Channel One (quoted by TASS).
According to Kiselyov, the main task of the blocked fighters was the destruction of the life support infrastructure - "to demolish as much as possible" and at the same time "to place the burden in the future" on the Russian Federation and the LPR. "To intimidate the civilian population in such a way that they feel fear for many years," the assistant minister said.
Kiselyov suggested that these troops were ordered not to withdraw from their positions. "Similarly, when prisoners were taken in Rubezhnoye, they said that they repeatedly appealed to the command: "We were forbidden to go out, they told us to stand to death." And the high-ranking commanders ran away a long time ago, a month ago," he added.
As specified by the officer of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrei Marochko, in Severodonetsk, fighting is already underway in urban development, in Lisichansk, targeted strikes are being carried out on the accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Control over Orekhovo and Drobyshevo
The People's Militia of the LPR also reported that the republic's forces took control of the small village of Orekhovo in the Popasnyansky district with a population of just over 200 people.
The People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic earlier stated that it controls the urban-type settlement of Drobyshevo, two kilometers from which there is a landscape reserve of local significance Podpesochnoye. The population of the village, as of 2013, was 3 thousand people.
The destroyed unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov
On May 17, the special forces of the Rosgvardiya announced that they had destroyed a unit of Ukrainian troops and military equipment near Kharkiv. The movement of the enemy's armored group was detected by intelligence.
Then the coordinates of the target were transferred to the artillery calculation of the Ministry of Defense. As a result of the clash, two infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed.
The Ukrainian military was taken out of Mariupol
A convoy of buses left Mariupol, presumably with Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered, who had previously been evacuated from Azovstal. The column was accompanied by armored vehicles. Before the start of the movement of the column, not a single shot and explosion were heard, RIA Novosti reports.
The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, earlier reported that 265 fighters surrendered during the day at Azovstal. 51 of them have serious injuries. All those in need of medical help were sent to the Novoazovsk hospital.
Leonid Tsvetaev
