The mission also noted the presence of armed people around the building where the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Lugansk region was previously stationed. As reported on Wednesday morning, November 22, the press center of the headquarters of the antiterrorist operation, the SMM patrol recorded a column of vehicles.

It consisted of at least six military-type trucks, two armored personnel carriers, an anti-aircraft gun, and more than 20 civilian vehicles without license plates carrying at least 50 armed men. Kolona moved along the road near Debaltsevo, Donetsk region.

The headquarters also reported that the same column moving in the direction of Lugansk. Another patrol mission recorded a column in the village of Veselyaya Tarasovka, 15 kilometers west of Lugansk. At the same time, the OSCE assumes that this is the same column that was recorded near Debaltsevo.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine confirmed the flight of the leader of the "Lugansk People's Republic" Igor Plotnitsky to Russia.