Moscow: Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, stated Sunday that Moscow’s forces have taken the strategic Ukrainian metropolis of Lysychansk and now manipulate the whole location of Lugansk, which has been the goal of fierce battles in current weeks.
“Sergei Shoigu has knowledgeable the commander in leader of the Russian armed forces, Vladimir Putin, of the liberation of the People’s Republic of Lugansk,” the defence ministry stated in a assertion quoted through Russian information agencies.
Russian forces and their separatist allies have taken “complete manipulate of Lysychansk and different close by towns, extensively Belogorovka, Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantseve and Bila Hora,” the assertion stated.
AFP turned into not able to confirm the statistics from impartial sources.
A short time previous to the announcement, a spokesman for the Russian defence ministry had stated that combating turned into ongoing in Lysychansk and that Ukrainian forces were “completely” surrounded.
The local governor of Lugansk, Sergiy Gaiday, stated on Telegram on Sunday that “the Russians are reinforcing their positions withinside the Lysychansk location. The metropolis is on fire.”