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Russian military forces and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine are in full control of the city of Lisitsansk, Russian news agency TASS reported, citing the Defense Ministry.
The ministry said earlier today that Russian forces had surrounded Lisitsansk and were now fighting inside the city.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has informed President Vladimir Putin that the entire Lugansk region of Ukraine has been “liberated” from Russian and separatist forces, the Defense Ministry said today, according to Reuters.
After being defeated in its initial attempt to seize the Ukrainian capital, Russia has focused its efforts on ousting Ukrainian forces from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the east of the country, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Kyiv since its first military intervention. of Russia in Ukraine in 2014.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces bombed a Russian base with more than 30 hits in the Russian-held southern city of Melitopol, the city’s exiled Ukrainian mayor said on Sunday.
Russia’s RIA news agency reported that Ukraine struck the area of Melitopol where the city’s airport is located.
There were no casualties from strikes by Ukrainian forces in Melitopol, wrote a local official stationed by Moscow in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region.
“Shells fell on the airport ground. There were no casualties,” wrote Yevgeny Balitsky, head of the Russian-installed council in the Zaporizhia region. He added that several private homes near the airport were damaged.
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