Soldiers of the unit of the Kadyrov Special Forces Police Regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic. File photoLYSICHANSK, July 3The commander of the Akhmat regiment, Hero of Russia Zamid Chalaev revealed the tactics of the Russian and Luhansk units, which made it possible to quickly capture Lisichansk. «We expanded the front, we went to Lisichansk, but we had a front of up to 50 kilometers to «use» them. We knew that in Lisichansk they had a lot of strength and means at that time, and a lot of civilians.In order for civilians not to suffer, we forced them in the fields, in small villages, so that they would come at us, and we slowly, a month and a half already, all of them «used up,» he said in an interview with a RIA Novosti correspondent.According to him, some positions were given away intentionally in order to additionally lure the Armed Forces of Ukraine from densely populated areas.Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Sunday announced the liberation of the Luhansk People's Republic.As a result of successful military operations Allied troops established full control over Lisichansk, the last city in the republic in which Ukrainian troops were stationed, and nearby settlements, the largest of which Belogorovka, Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantsevo and Belaya Gora. The total area of the territories liberated over the past day amounted to 182 square kilometers. Residents of the liberated Lisichansk raise the Victory Banners and Russian tricolors and congratulate each other, as well as the soldiers of the allied forces, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since February 24, the purpose of which is Vladimir Putin called «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying for eight years, genocide by the Kyiv regime.» 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. » />June 22, 17:18InfographicsInteractive map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
