The defense of the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration is a successful military operation, Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, wrote in Telegram.

" All the tasks of the operation have been completed: Himarsy is here, the Russians have horrific losses, the second line of defense is ready, the ZSU is conducting counter-offensive operations in three sectors of the front: near Vuhledar, in the Zaporozhye direction, in Kherson,"

The Russians are also attacking in 3 areas - Kharkov, Izyum, Bakhmut.

" One of the main achievements of this operation is the broken Red Army stereotype “not a step back”, which for eight years by inertia put pressure on our military thought and cost us both Ilovaisk and the fall of the DAP, the 32nd checkpoint,” Arestovich wrote..

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According to him, the Russian army suffered losses that make any achievements meaningless..

" We will return Lisichansk,"

Earlier it was reported that ISW analysts predicted which cities of Donbass the Russians would attack next.. The names of the Russian commanders who led the operation to capture Lisichansk also became known..