Kyiv recently claimed that several hundred locals and factory workers are using the factory basements as shelters.
The pro-Russian guerrillas of Donbas claim to have surrounded the Nitrogen chemical plant in Severonetska city that has been at the center of fighting for weeks.
“A little one group of Ukrainian fighters can no longer leave the factory. “All escape routes are cut off for them,” Radion Mirosnik, the “ambassador” of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Luhansk in Moscow, told the Telegram.
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SeverodonetskThere is a battle in the district of the industrial zone (the Azot plant). pic.twitter.com/oQgTPZZeLs
– Laurence Woodside (@Lar_Woodside) June 10, 2022
Mirosnik admitted that he is It is possible that civilians also took refuge in the besieged Nitrogen.
Kyiv recently claimed that several hundred locals and factory workers are using its basements as shelters.
This situation is reminiscent of what happened in Mariupolwhere thousands of residents and Ukrainian soldiers took refuge in Azofstal steelworks and remained surrounded there for weeks, until they finally surrendered. Many of the Ukrainian soldiers are now Russian prisoners.
More than 90% of the Luhansk region, where Sheverodonetsk is located, is now controlled by Russian forces.
