Severodonetsk is controlled by Ukrainian troops, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He noted that the invaders are hiding in the Mir Hotel on the outskirts of the city, but they cannot go further.

" Where he managed to gain a foothold in the Mir Hotel is in the vicinity of Severodonetsk, where they remain. Moreover, they suffer losses there, because ours constantly fire at them there, knock them out of the hotel. While they are hiding there, they cannot go any further,” Gaidai said..

At the same time, according to him, “Kadyrov’s tickers have already made a video against the background of the flag of some kind of akhmadchai” that Severodonetsk is allegedly under the control of the invaders.

“I say again - our guys are holding the line of defense, the enemy has no success, he has not taken anything. Severodonetsk is ours,” added the head of the Lugansk OVA.

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According to yesterday's information from the General Staff, Russia is trying to encircle Ukrainian troops near Lisichansk and Severodonetsk and reach the administrative border of the Luhansk region.

At the same time, according to analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War, even if the occupiers succeed in capturing Severodonetsk, this will not become an operational, much less a strategic advantage, and the Ukrainians will go on the counteroffensive.. American analysts call the situation near Severodonetsk " ) clashed after the isolation of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol"