DONETSK, November 21. /TASS/. Russian troops have conducted a mop-up operation on the northern shore of the Kurakhovo water reservoir, Igor Kimakovsky, adviser to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on the Solovyov Live TV channel.

"In the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovo areas, it is the Battlegroup Center that is the most successful. It is conducting its offensive between the Solyonaya and Volchya rivers and pressuring the enemy in the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk - TASS) direction and on the northern shore of the Kurakhovo water reservoir, which has already been virtually cleared," he said.

The official added that the only road the Ukrainian armed forces could use to leave the city is under Russia’s control.