Shoigu: Occupation of Lugansk is almost complete

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said today that the occupation of the Ukrainian region of Luhansk was almost complete, and that 1,908 Ukrainian fighters who had been fortified at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol had surrendered.

“The units of the Russian armed forces, together with the People’s Militia divisions of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, continue to increase their control over the Donbas region. The liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic is almost complete,” he said. russian news agencies.

Shoigu also said Russia would set up 12 new military bases in the western part of the country in response to NATO reinforcements and its expected enlargement to Finland and Sweden.

“By the end of the year, 12 military bases and units will be deployed in the western military sector,” Soigu told ministry and military officials, noting “increasing military threats on the Russian border” and blaming NATO and the United States. States.

Source: Capital

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