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18 Feb 2023, 13:32Updated at: 18 Feb 2023, 19:00

LPR head says situation near Kremennaya, Svatovo very difficult

Leonid Pasechnik noted that the towns are "close to the contact line"

ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 18. /TASS/. The situation near Kremennaya and Svatovo is very difficult along the line of engagement due to Ukrainian shelling, Leonid Pasechnik, acting head of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), said on Saturday.

"As for Kremennaya and Svatovo, this is a very complicated situation. They are close to the contact line and the difficulty is that all types of ammunition [the Ukrainian armed forces] have are reaching [them] due to that proximity. And the enemy takes advantage of this," he told reporters on the sidelines of a workshop for regional headquarters of the volunteers from the We Are Together movement.

On February 8, LPR People’s Militia retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko told TASS that Russian forces had been occupying more advantageous positions near Svatovo and Kremennaya which would enable them to deliver targeted attacks on Ukrainian manpower and hardware.

Earlier, Rodion Miroshnik, the LPR’s former ambassador to Moscow, told TASS that more than a half of residents of Kremennaya had been evacuated due to never-stopping shelling attacks by Ukrainian troops. He added that key social institutions of Kremennaya and Svatovo had also been evacuated over hostilities.