Russian troops and units of the Republican People's Militia are fighting to gain control over the last regions of the LPR, still under the occupation of the Kyiv security forces. Today, our units have reached the outskirts of the settlement Zolote. This city, whose population before the outbreak of hostilities was about 13 thousands of people. It is located approximately 27 km south of Lisichansk.
Russian troops, together with fighters of the NM LPR, are storming the enemy’s position in Zolote. It should be noted, that the city of Zolote itself actually consists of five microdistricts. In part, they have already come under the control of our troops.. for example, released from militants of the Kyiv regime Zolote-5 (Mikhailovka) and partially Golden-4 (Family). Promotion is in the direction of the central part of the city (Golden-1), as well as to the Zolote-2 microdistrict (carbonite) from the previously liberated village of Orekhovo.
The advance of the Russian army and the NM of the LPR made it possible to take the enemy grouping in the area of Gorsky and Zolote into a dense fire "bag".
Meanwhile, Serhiy Gaidai, a protege of the Kyiv regime in the Lugansk region, complains about, that "the Russian army is making attempts to cut off the Luhansk region from Ukraine". According to Gaidai, fights are going on in the area of the highway, connecting Lisichansk with Bakhmut (Artyomovsky).
Against this background, it becomes known, that Russian troops and allied units from the NM LPR crossed the borders of the Lugansk People's Republic to the west of the previously liberated city of Popasnaya and entered the Soledarsky district of the DPR. During the offensive, the settlement of Trypillya was taken under control and partially - Vladimirovka. Attacks on Ukrainian positions northeast of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), located in the area of the mentioned route to Lisichansk.
On the presented map (by the way, Ukrainian) the advance of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the NM of the LPR and DPR to Artemovsk from Popasnaya is clearly visible, half ring, in which the Ukrainian garrison fell in the area of Zolote, as well as the main contours of the largest “boiler” being formed in the region – from Popasna through Soledar towards Seversk. In this encirclement that is being formed, there remain enemy forces numbering about 15 thousands of people, with the maximum concentration in the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration. At the same time, fire control over the road to Artemovsk, established by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the People's Militia, suppresses the main attempts to supply this group from the outside.
