Houses in Severodonetsk during the fighting in Donbass. File photoMOSCOW, June 6The head of the Kyiv-controlled Lugansk regional military administration, Serhiy Gaidai, said on Monday that the situation for Ukrainian troops in the Severodonetsk region has now worsened. The head of the Lugansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, said on June 2 that the republic's forces fully control its entire territory, with the exception of Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. The deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the Donetsk People's Republic, Eduard Basurin, said on the same day that the allied forces expect to take the Ukrainian group in the region of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk into the «cauldron» in a few days. Head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev said on June 4 that a number of units of the Ukrainian troops lost up to 90% of their personnel in the battles for Severodonetsk and are retreating towards Lisichansk. .jpg» />The DPR forces will soon close the cauldron near Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, Basurin said. «We managed to carry out a counteroffensive and liberate almost half of the city for some time, but now the situation has worsened for us again,» Gaidai said on the air of the Ukraine 24 TV channel. Russia launched a military operation on Ukraine February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. What is happening near Severodonetsk
