"Ukrainskaya Pravda" quotes the words of the spokesman of the National Guard, Ruslan Muzychuk, on the air of the national telethon:

"There are fierce battles near Lisichansk, but the city is not surrounded and is under the control of Ukrainian troops."

In the evening summary of the General Staff of the USU, it is reported that Russian troops are entrenched in Verkhniakamenka, located near Lisichansk.

On the morning of July 2, the General Staff reported that Russian troops were attacking in the Lisichan direction near Verkhniakomenka, but were unsuccessful and withdrew.

The Russian news agency TASS reported on Saturday, with reference to the representative of the self-proclaimed "LPR" Vitaly Kisilyov, that units of the so-called "people's militia of the LPR" entered Lisichansk and are in the vicinity of the Shakhtar stadium.

It is noted that this is practically the center of the city.

The correspondent of another Russian state agency "RIA Novosti" reported from the scene that "Lisichansk has been taken and is under the control of the allied forces."

Also, the Russian mass media spread the comment of the assistant to the head of Chechnya, the commander of the "Akhmat" special unit, Apti Alaudinov, that Lisichansk has come under the complete control of pro-Russian forces.

Earlier on July 2, Kadyrov himself, as well as the representative of the "people's militia of the LPR" Andrei Marochka, announced the complete encirclement of Lisichansk and the blockade of Ukrainian units located in this city.

In the evening, Kadyrov wrote in Telegram that Russian forces had established control over Lisichansk.

"The commander of the special police regiment... Zamid Chalaev, together with the sixth Cossack regiment, entered Lisichansk from the direction of Papasnensky and took control of the city," wrote the head of Chechnya.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has not yet commented on these statements of the Russian side, the Ukrainian service of Radio Svaboda writes.

In recent days, Lisichansk has been subjected to intense rocket fire, the fighting has been going on for a week after the Russian military took control of the city of Severodanetsk, located near Lisichansk on the other side of the Seversky Danets River.

Before the capture, Severodanetsk was almost completely destroyed.

Lisichansk was called a key battleground for Moscow in the Donbass — in its attempt to conquer the Ukrainian industrial center of the Donbass.

Russia's war against Ukraine

  • At 5 o'clock in the morning on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbass at the request of the "DPR" and "LPR" groups.

    On February 21, during a televised address to Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

    On February 22, the Council of the Federation ratified this decision.

  • All days of the war, Ukrainian cities were bombarded with rockets, aircraft flew over them.

    Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

    Representatives of the Lukashenka regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to the Russian invaders.

  • On February 27, the International Territorial Defense Legion was created in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were invited to join it.

    Belarusians also entered there.

    During the three and a half months of war, six Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the USU died at the front: Alyaksei "Tur" Skoblya, Ilya "Litvin" Hrenau, Zmytser "Terror" Apanasovich, Zmytser "Hans" Rubashevsky, Konstantin "Phoenix" Dubaila and Pavel "Volat". .

  • On June 17, the fighters of the Kalinovsky regiment received the state Ukrainian awards "For combat merits" and "Ukraine above all".

  • On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission that will investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

    It included people who worked in the analysis of the genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Contrary to Putin's statements about attacks only on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

    The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs, against civilians.

  • On April 1, Lithuania became the first country in the European Union to completely abandon Russian gas.

    Latvia and Estonia followed her example.

    Germany has promised to completely stop using Russian oil by the end of 2022.

  • On April 2, after the liberation of the town of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photographs showing hundreds of dead people, victims of mass murders committed by Russian troops.

    Many are buried in spontaneous mass graves.

    The Russian occupation also brought great destruction to the people of Barodyan.

    It is also known about a number of rapes, including babies.

  • In April, missile attacks on Ukraine and airstrikes from the territory of Belarus decreased, Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

  • On May 9, the US President signed the Land Leasing Law.

    This law restores the program from the Second World War, which will speed up the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and increase the amount of such assistance.

  • On the night of May 17, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Anna Malyar, confirmed the beginning of the operation to rescue the Ukrainian soldiers, who were trapped in the territory of "Azovstal".

    According to her, 53 seriously wounded were evacuated from there to the medical facility of occupied Novoazovsk.

    Another 211 people were brought to Alenivka through the humanitarian corridor.

    The Ministry of Defense of Russia states that almost 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers at the plant "surrendered" as of May 18.

    The International Red Cross officially registered these fighters as prisoners of war.

  • Since its inception, thousands of volunteers from 55 countries have joined the Foreign Legion, including Canada, the Baltic States, Poland, Australia, the Netherlands, the USA, the Czech Republic, Finland and other countries.

    Several foreigners who fought for Ukraine were captured and died.

  • In June, the so-called "DPR" sentenced two volunteers from Great Britain and one from Morocco to death.

  • Since the beginning of the war, 34 journalists have died.

    Some did not perform professional functions, but were mobilized into the Ukrainian army.

  • On June 25, Ukrainian troops retreated from the city of Severodanetsk to fortified positions.

    The city was captured by the Russian military.

  • Independent verification of information about military actions provided by officials of various parties is still impossible.