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Pro-Russian separatists have announced that they have completely surrounded the nitrogen plant in Severodonetsk, a city that has been the "hot spot" in weeks of fighting in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, BTA reported.

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"A small group of Ukrainian servicemen on the territory of the Azot chemical plant can no longer leave the site. All escape routes have been cut off," the ambassador to Moscow of the rebel-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic wrote in the Telegram. Rodion Miroshnik.

This claim has not been independently confirmed.

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Miroshnik acknowledged that civilians may still be hiding in the besieged plant.

Ukraine recently said that several hundred people use the dungeons of "Nitrogen" as bomb shelters, notes DPA.

The situation is reminiscent of what happened in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, where thousands of locals and Ukrainian soldiers managed to find refuge at the Azovstal steel plant and were surrounded for several weeks before finally surrendering.

Many of these Ukrainian servicemen are currently being held captive in Russia.

More than 90 percent of Ukraine's Luhansk region, where Severodonetsk is located, is already occupied by Russia after more than three months of war. 

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