A residential building in Severodonetsk, destroyed by shelling. Archival photoSEVERODONETSK, June 15 The LPR recorded the shelling of a humanitarian corridor from the Azot plant in Severodonetsk and stopped its work for today, said the head of the garrison service of the second army corps of the People's Militia of the Republic Alexander Nikishin. «We began to comply ceasefire, organized a corridor from the factory entrance to the exit from Severodonetsk. But at 8:10 the Ukrainian side began shelling in the area of the factory exit,» he said.
The LPR believes that there may be foreign mercenaries at the Azot plant. The shelling, according to the representative of the LPR, was carried out from a tank and mortars, in particular, the Nona installation. According to Nikishin, despite this, one person was able to leave the enterprise. On the first day of the humanitarian corridor, only one grandfather came out along it. Apparently, he did not know about the corridor and went out by accident, asking the nationalists for supposedly some things,» he added. one and a half thousand civilians. Thus, according to him, there are 70-75 civilians in the shelter near the first gate of the plant, which is under the control of the Ukrainian military. in critical condition. «There is information that people are not even able to go out and get water for five days, that is, the situation is terrible,» he said. jpg» />The Ministry of Defense commented on Kyiv's request for a gum corridor to LisichanskThe Kiev-appointed head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai, said the day before that about 500 residents remained at Azot, 40 of them were children. At the same time, according to the LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik, there are about 300-400 Ukrainian soldiers at the enterprise blocked by the allied forces. The battles for Severodonetsk have been going on since the beginning of May. Last week, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the complete liberation of residential areas of the city. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stated, 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, the Russian army has already completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
