Battle for Severodonetsk: Situation as at 18.00 on June 19, 2022
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces continue to tighten the ring of encirclement around the industrial zone in the southwest of Severodonetsk. Fighting is taking place over the area of the trucking companies adjacent to the treatment plant from the southeast. The occupation of this area will make it possible to reach the southern outskirts of the Azot plant and the Severodonetsk thermal power plant and complete the encirclement.
The AFU defense south of the Azot plant rests on a chain of lakes. The AFU hold a bridgehead along Seversky Donets, control part of the Sirotino settlement adjacent to Frunze Street, and the Borovskoye settlement.
Most likely, the Russian Armed Forces control the Lesnaya Dacha settlement adjacent to the southern outskirts of Severodonetsk and Frunze Street behind the wooded area near the airport.
▪️The grouping at the Azot plant is supplied by two routes: via the Leninsky Bridge and country roads behind the lakes, as well as directly from Lisichansk by boats - people are taken to the dacha settlements to the thermal power plant.
The foreign mercenary units involved in the defense of the Azot plant are suffering losses and in small groups tend to leave the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets.
▪️ In Lisichansk, individual units of the AFU are losing courage and leaving the area of combat operations. For example, a platoon of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade completely abandoned their positions. The reasons are prosaic: incessant shelling, lack of ammunition and low morale.
▪️LPR units are approaching the southern outskirts of Lisichansk. The clearance of Toshkivka has been completed. Fighting is going on in the districts of Ustinovka and Myrna Dolyna. The suburb of Lisichansk Bila Gora is constantly being treated with artillery fire.
The Ukrainian armed forces are hastily moving reinforcements to the Toshkivka area: a battalion of the 112th Brigade of the territorial defense was redeployed to reinforce it.
▪️The Russian units advancing in the Soledar direction are breaking through to the Lisichansk refinery with fierce fighting. The day before, strikes were launched against the strategically important facility. The occupation of the Lisichansk refinery will make it possible to close the external ring of encirclement around the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk grouping.
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