Deputy Commander of the DPR Operational Command Eduard Basurin. Archival photoDONETSK, June 13 Ukrainian security forces are actually blocked in Severodonetsk, Deputy Head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR Eduard Basurin told the press tour organized by the Ministry of Defense. connected Severodonetsk with Lisichansk, and now they cannot leave the city. «Those Ukrainian military units that are there have remained forever. They have two options: either follow the example of their colleagues and surrender, or die. They have no other option,» Basurin said. Last week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced complete liberation of residential areas of Severodonetsk. Fighting continues on the territory of the Azot plant, where the blocked nationalists are holding several hundred civilians. Thus, almost the entire territory of the LPR has been liberated, the last major city still controlled by the Kyiv authorities is Lisichansk. 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, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
