Houses in Severodonetsk during the fighting in Donbass. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 2 The forces of the Donetsk People's Republic in a few days expect to «cauldron» a group of Ukrainian military in the area of Lysichansk and Severodonetsk, Deputy Head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR Eduard Basurin said on the Rossiya TV channel 1. «There are a few days left to completely close the cauldron, which is connected with Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, with the withdrawal of our troops to the Artemovsk region after that … We do not speed up the process, we just hold them back and slowly grind those parts that are here» , he said.May 24, 08:00Special military operation in Ukraine»We are advancing again». Where troops are deployed after the storming of MariupolAccording to him, in recent days, the Ukrainian military tried to break through in the area of Novomikhailovka and Avdiivka, but were repulsed and suffered huge losses. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The army has already completed the main task of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
