Thread by @Animosteles

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Alexander Kharchenko (t.me/bayraktar1070), a journalist on the ground during #Lisichansk battle:

"All three days we sat in basements and rode in BMPs. Both can protect us from incoming Ukrainian shells."

(Complete translation from russian in this thread)

"We came under fire a couple of times, but luckily we got through it all. In spite of all the dangers, the grouping of Ukrainian troops in the LPR was encircled, and now individual groups of soldiers are making their way to Seversk.

The O (Brave) group played a special role in defeating the AFU. These guys slammed the lid on the cauldron and forced the Ukrainians to flee Lysychansk. In open combat on this section of the front,

the AFU could not hold out, so they actively used mobile groups. They travel in civilian off-road vehicles and specialize in ambushes. They set up anti-tank guided missiles and wait for vehicles to appear. We saw one tank get hit in such a way.

You think you are safe, but it turns out that there are Ukrainians in the next landing...

The Russian troops are advancing in very small numbers. The Ukrainians have an overwhelming advantage in manpower and are on the defensive, but still retreating.

I hope the memoirs will come out later and they will tell us how many Russian soldiers liberated the oil refinery and closed the encirclement ring in Belogovrovka.

The most prepared units of the AFU withdrew from the encirclement in time. The reservists were left to be slaughtered. We talked to several captives. All as one did not shoot or kill, and in general did not want to fight.

One of them had a specialty in military ID - sniper. There are characteristic bruises on his shoulder and eye, but he still claims that it was a mistake and his military ID was given out of nowhere.