The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that the occupiers of Popasna. As a result of the shelling, two civilians were killed and one person was injured..

" Two people were killed and one was injured right on the street in Popasna,"

According to him, Russian troops are advancing along the entire line of collision.. The occupiers are concentrating their main efforts on offensive actions in the Severodonetsk direction, intensively shelling our troops in order to force them out.

The offensive continues in the direction of Novotoshkovsky and assault operations near Rubizhne and Popasna.

Gaidai stressed that over the past 24 hours, eight enemy attacks were repulsed in the Donbas, nine tanks, eighteen armored and thirteen vehicles, a tanker, three artillery systems were destroyed..

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Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian intelligence received an intercepted conversation of the Russian military, which refers to the order to kill all prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Popasna area in the Lugansk region..