Occupied Sievierodonetsk is 90% destroyed - the Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration
ALONA MAZURENKO — SATURDAY, 25 JUNE 2022, 19:38
Serhiy Haidai, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, said that occupied Sievierodonetsk had been 90% destroyed.
Source: Haidai on Facebook
Quote from Haidai: "Sievierodonetsk is occupied. After the withdrawal of units of our troops, the enemy has consolidated in the regional centre of Sievierodonetsk and satellite villages: Syrotyne, Voronove and Borivske.
The city is 90% destroyed, it will be extremely difficult to survive there, the ‘orcs’ [Russian soldiers] will not be able to restore communications."
Details: Haidai reiterated that it is now possible to leave Sievierodonetsk only through the temporarily occupied territories.
The Russians are also establishing their own "order" in the city: they have appointed a "commandant" and are filming propaganda stories with people emerging from shelters in Azot plant.
Background:
- On 23 June, Serhii Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, said that Ukrainian defence forces in Sievierodonetsk could retreat to new, better-fortified positions.
- On 24 June, Haidai reported that Ukrainian defenders had stopped the Russian offensive near Borivske in Luhansk Oblast and repulsed the attack on Lysychansk, while the occupiers had managed to capture Mykolaivka, and fighting was continuing in Sievierodonetsk.
- Haidai later said that the Ukrainian troops defending Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast had been ordered to retreat to better-fortified positions.
- Yurii Butusov, a journalist, said that Ukrainian units had left part of the Sievierodonetsk industrial zone in an organised manner.
- The US Department of Defence endorsed the withdrawal of troops from Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast.
