The head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said that if the Ukrainian defenders in Severodonetsk receive long-range guns from Western countries, they will be able to quickly "

" The same thing happened in the already destroyed Rubizhne and Popasna. The enemy is powerfully hitting the industrial zone, which we control. If we quickly get Western long-range weapons, then an artillery duel will begin, the Soviets will lose to the West, and our defenders will be able to clear Severodonetsk in two or three days,"

Gaidai stressed that the invaders do not control Severodonetsk.

" Therefore, progress on it by 90 percent means defeat.. This road is not used,"

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Severodonetsk remains the epicenter of confrontation with Russian invaders in Donbass. Zelensky is sure that the fate of Donbass is now being decided there.