Severodonetsk. Archive photoMOSCOW, 4 Jun. Some units of the Ukrainian troops lost up to 90 percent of their personnel in the battles for Severodonetsk, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center. consolidated tactical group to mine tanks with one hundred tons of saltpeter and acid in Severodonetsk, in order to delay the advance of the Russian army «by creating a zone of chemical contamination.» materials in Ukrainian and Western media.»Hell»: what the most defenseless residents of Mariupol facedEdward Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, said at the beginning of the week that the republic's forces expect to take the AFU grouping in the Severodonetsk region into the «cauldron» in a few days. As LNR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said, the Azot plant located in this city continues to be cleared of Ukrainian militants, but it is held back by the possibility that they have civilians as hostages and containers with chemicals. Nevertheless, he noted that «there will be no second Azovstal here.» Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, Russian troops have already completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was the liberation of Donbass.
