Industrial zone of Severodonetsk and airport are completely released, Kadyrov said

Smoke from the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 25 The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that he had taken control of the Severodonetsk airport and the industrial area where the Azot plant is located. «The Severodonetsk industrial area and the airport have been completely liberated! <…&gt ; One of the difficult points of the Ukrainian defense did not last long!» — he wrote in the Telegram channel. According to the politician, 800 civilians were taken out of the territory of the enterprise. Local battles with «remnants of bandit groups» continue at the airport. Now the LNR forces control the entire territory of the Lugansk region, with the exception of Lisichansk. There, as one of the security officials told RIA Novosti, three points are already occupied, in particular, in the area of ​​​​the rubber products plant and the glass enterprise. on «Azot» the military called the demand for surrender Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that the «Center» grouping of troops, having broken through the well-prepared defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, defeated the enemy and blockaded Lisichansk from the south. He stressed that within five days, Russian units took control of 11 settlements, including Loskutovka, Mirnaya Dolina, Ustinovka. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for the «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. » />Yesterday, 14:01InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine on 24.06.2022InfographicView