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The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian Armed Forces almost took control of the city of Svyatogorsk (DPR) and the surrounding areas. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that Ukrainian national troops blew up a bridge over the North Donets River. Thus, the military declared that they were trying to prevent the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, acting as barrage detachments.
“The remnants of the battalions of the 95th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 81st Separate Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, cut off from the main forces and supplies due to the undermining of the bridge, abandoned military equipment. “They dispersed along the coast with weapons,” he said.
Konashenkov announced that about 80 Ukrainian soldiers swam to the Russian soldiers. The fire did not open on them.
Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said in the broadcast of the television channel: “Russia 24”He said the city was undergoing a clean-up operation.
“Svyatogorsk has actually been liberated, a liquidation is in progress,” said Pushilin.
According to him, the Ukrainian army occupied a certain height in the vicinity of Svyatogorsk, so there are some difficulties.
Earlier in Svyatogorsk, the wooden sketch of the All Saints of the Russian Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra was burned. While the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation blamed the Ukrainian Armed Forces for this, the Ukrainian side stated that the Russian army opened fire on the church.
Clashes continue near Popasna. On June 6, RIA Novosti reported that LPR artillery had settled on the outskirts of the city under the control of the Russian Armed Forces and attacked Ukrainian positions.
As for Severodonetsk, the head of the Luhansk military-civil administration, Serhiy Gaidai, said that it was “a rather small city, so the situation is changing dynamically”. According to Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine only controls the industrial zone and the adjacent neighborhood, writes Strana.ua.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, also spoke of “taking the entire residential area of the city of Severodonetsk.” He posted a video of Akhmat warriors roaming the streets of the city freely, talking to the shopkeepers of the working store.
“They fled [украинские военные] friends, our men, together with the LPR fighters, systematically and gradually left the city for the industrial zone, where he sent them and foreign mercenaries to Bandera, ”says Kadyrov.
Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the LPR to the Russian Federation, gave similar information to the stream of RT Letuchka: “Severodonetsk is almost completely controlled by our troops. There are separate sabotage and reconnaissance groups concentrated in the industrial zone of the nitrogen chemistry association.
According to him, there are fights in Lisichansk, located on the other side of the Northern Donets. The bases of the Ukrainian army located in the Privolnyanskaya mine were “almost liquidated”. “So the bombardment will be less intense today,” he said on 6 June.
Ukrainian authorities do not lose hope
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), does not believe that the “temporary loss of territory” is a tragedy. “The tragedy will be the loss of the country,” he said in an interview with the British Financial Times.
Danilov believes that it will be “very, very difficult” for the Ukrainian troops to win the conflict with Russia. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to resist for a long time and will be able to “restore” control over the lost lands.
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council stated that Russia is superior to Ukraine in terms of artillery, so the Armed Forces of Ukraine “could not adequately respond” in combat. However, Ukrainian troops may continue to withdraw from Donbass to regroup and seek further assistance from the West.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky claims that the most difficult areas for the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the moment are the Zaporozhye and Severodonetsk aspects. According to him, “There is a threatening situation in the Zaporozhye region and Severodonetsk.”
Zelensky acknowledges that the country’s situation could get worse. “If there is a breakthrough in Donbass, it will be very difficult for us,” he said.