Russian military forces and separatist forces in Eastern Ukraine are in full control of the city of Lyshchansk, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS, citing the Defence Ministry.
In fact, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin that the entire Luhansk region was "liberated" from both Russian and separatist forces.
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Earlier, Russian military forces had surrounded Lyshchansk, with the Russian Defense Ministry adding that it hit military infrastructure in Kharkiv located in eastern Ukraine, as well as a base used by foreign fighters on the outskirts of Mikolaiv in the south of the country.
After the failure of the first attempt to take Kiev, Russia focused its efforts on driving Ukrainian military forces out of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions located in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting against Kiev since the first Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
Source: protothema.gr
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