A street leading to the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk. File photoLUHANSK, June 21About 20 civilians left the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk in the Luhansk People's Republic, they are safe, LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said on his Telegram channel. He specified that the exit of civilians from the plant is complicated by constant shelling from the Ukrainian side. artillery.» As the allied forces advance across the territory of «Azot», civilians, who have remained in the shelters of the plant for the last weeks, begin to leave the shelters. Today, about two dozen civilians independently went to the second gate of the plant, which is not controlled by the militants. Now they are already safe The exit of civilians and the laying down of arms by militants is held back by constant shelling of Ukrainian artillery of Severodonetsk from the suburbs of Lisichansk,» Miroshnik wrote. The Azot chemical plant is located in Severodonetsk. During the liberation of the city, the Russian army and allied troops blocked the Ukrainian military on the territory of the enterprise. The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, said that, according to estimates, there are up to a thousand Ukrainian nationalists at the plant. In addition, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, mercenaries from the United States, Great Britain and Poland are also hiding there. The LPR forces continue negotiations on their possible surrender.
LPR forces after the capture of Toshkovka develop an offensive on LisichanskRussia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify since February 24 and demilitarization of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The main goal in the department was the liberation of Donbass.
