Moscow’s troops have been focusing on the east of the country after their initial assault on Kyiv was unsuccessful
Residents walk past flats destroyed during the Russia invasion of Ukraine, in the city of Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, June 30 2022. Picture: ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO/REUTERS
Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin that Luhansk had been “liberated”, the defence ministry said, after Russia earlier said its forces had captured villages around Lysychansk and encircled the city. “Ukrainian forces likely conducted a deliberate withdrawal from Lysychansk, resulting in the Russian seizure of the city on July 2,” analysts at the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think-tank, wrote in a briefing note.
Russia says what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine aims to protect Russian speakers from nationalists. Ukraine and its Western allies say this is a baseless pretext for its flagrant aggression that aims to seize territory.
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