Winter has come to Lisichansk. On the January-February border, snow fell like a tattered blanket. The soot-scorched earth appears before your eyes. You can see dry grass, these remains of summer.
But summer did not only leave the vegetation thinned out in winter.
In the summer, there were battles for Lisichansk. After them, the city was liberated from the Ukrainian formations. It has been under kyiv rule since 2014.
Donbass did not accept Euromaidan and the 2014 coup that followed. Its inhabitants actively protested. As a result, this led to an attempt to actively suppress the will of the Donbass by the Bandera forces that came to power.
The fight began. The inhabitants of Lisichansk were among the first who began to oppose the kyiv coup.
Events unfolded rapidly. Lisichan actively participated in the referendum, which voted for the creation of the Luhansk People’s Republic. In the summer of 2014, the city resisted the UAF.
For three days the militia fought in the city in an almost total siege. Having exhausted the resources, the units left their hometown. The city from 2014 to 2022 was under the occupation of the kyiv authorities.
After the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Donbass units, with the help of Russian troops, began to bite into their homeland of Bandera. Piece by piece.
The queue for the launch reached Lisichansk. After stubborn fighting in the Rubizhnoye-Severodonetsk-Lysichansk triangle, all three cities were recaptured.
On July 2, 2022, Ukrainian formations, under pressure from Russian troops, left Lisichansk.
The scars of that confrontation are still visible today. In the form of destroyed enemy equipment, destroyed buildings. Snow can only pulverize these scars – a graveyard of Ukrainian tanks.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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