If our military remained in the previous positions, we would lose a large number of personnel. They need to regroup.
ZSU today left Kreminna , then the enemy went there, because the occupiers razed the city to the ground. Serhiy Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, said this during a broadcast on the DOM TV channel, noting that there was no betrayal here.
“Tonight our troops withdrew. The fact is that in almost two months of defense everything was broken, the orcs were shot hard and have not even started to attack, not to try to make breakthroughs, but just started to level everything. with the land, “Gaidai said.
So our defenders left to regroup.
“There is nothing supernaturally critical here, no need to look for betrayal. There is simply no point in standing still, killing everyone, not causing significant damage to the enemy. There is no heroism in this. Therefore, it was decided to withdraw, regroup and continue to fight,” Gaidai said. .
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In the morning of April 18, the head of the Luhansk regional military administration Sergei Gaidai announced the capture of Kreminna by Russian troops . According to him, between three and a half to four thousand people remained in the community, but as of this morning, their evacuation was impossible. The occupiers shot the cars that were trying to leave the city on their own.
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