Luhansk region: in Bilohorivka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy Russian pontoons and equipment, while the Russians flee by swimming

OLENA ROSHCHINA — TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2022, 10:35 AM

In Bilohorivka, Luhansk region, the "sweeping of the territory" continues; the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed the pontoons and military equipment of the Russian troops, and some of the invaders have fled by swimming.

Source: Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration (OVA) Serhii Haidai on the morning of 10 May

Quote: "In Bilohorivka, where the enemy tried to create a solid crossing and transfer equipment and personnel to our side, he was partially successful, but now all pontoon crossings have been destroyed, all equipment has been destroyed and the remaining personnel have either been killed or have fled by swimming across to the other side."

Details: Earlier, the Russian troops transported equipment to the other side by pontoon across the Seversky Donets river, but the Ukrainian military has begun a "sweeping operation."

Haidai said that "about 80 Ruscists were on our shore, [and] the hunt continues; there are not many left."

"We are waiting for it to die down so that rescuers can finally go to Bilohorivka and Shypilovo to get people out of the rubble," the Head of the Region said.

Fighting continues in the villages of the Hirs’k community.

Heavy fighting continues in the region of ​​Zolote-3, Zolote-4 and Katerynivka. Ukrainian soldiers are holding the line of defence; there are no breakthroughs.

Voievodivka is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU).

In Rubizhne, the Russian forces also have not advanced; the Rubizhansky front is under ZSU control.

Haidai noted that the goal of the Russian forces is to cut off the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway in the direction of Popasna or Bilohorivka, so that the region would be "in a vacuum", and then neither evacuation nor the delivery of humanitarian cargo would be possible.

Mobile communications are intermittent in the Luhansk region, and the authorities are working to solve this problem.