The war in Ukraine “will not win”, said today the UN coordinator for the crisis in the country, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “This war has not and will not have a winner,” Amin Awad said in a statement. “We need peace. The war must stop,” he […]
Tag: Lugansk
Ukrainian army: The battle for Sheverodonetsk is not over
The Ukrainian army announced today that it had managed to maintain its positions overnight in the strategic city of Sheverodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. “Fighting continues in the center of Sheverodonetsk,” the general staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement on the situation on the ground, adding that Russian forces were constantly bombing […]
Ukraine: The Russians pound Lisichansk
Lisichansk is one of the few cities in the Ukrainian-controlled province of Luhansk. Russian attacks continue. A DW reporter was found near the front line. Anyone coming to Lysichansk in eastern Ukraine should drive as fast as possible. Call for speeding is out of the question. But when he is late, he risks a much […]
Ukraine: Fierce fighting in Severodonetsk – Russian bombing of Nikolaev
Street battles are taking place in Sheverodonetsk as Russian forces try to take control of the city, says the governor of the region. The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Gaidai, told the Telegram that Russian forces had “suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat” in and around Sheverodonetsk. However, Russian troops continue to […]
Zelensky: Russia seeks to achieve some 100-day military targets
Russia is “trying to achieve in at least 100 days of war the goals it hoped to achieve in the first days after February 24,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a nightly video sermon. Moscow has amassed “the maximum number of artillery, the maximum reserves” in the Donbas region, he said, adding that Kiev […]
Ukraine: 10,000 Russian troops are stationed in the Luhansk region
The governor of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, Sergei Gaidai, said today that there were about 10,000 Russian soldiers in the area, according to Reuters. “These are the (units) permanently located in the Luhansk region, which are trying to attack and try to gain territorial gains in any direction they can,” Gaidai told Ukrainian television. Reuters could […]
Ukraine: Russian forces ‘very close’ to encircling Ukrainians in the east
Russian forces came very close to encircling Ukrainian troops in the east and briefly occupied some positions on the last highway passing outside two critical Ukrainian-controlled cities before pushing them away, according to a Ukrainian official. . Three months after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has abandoned the attack on Kyiv and is trying to […]
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 […]
Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists in Lugansk consider referendum to join Russia
The Russian-backed self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine could soon hold a referendum on joining Russia, local leader Leonid Pasetsnik said on Sunday, according to the rebel news agency Reuters. “I think in the near future a referendum will be held in the territory of democracy,” Pasetsnik said. “The people will exercise their absolute […]
Kremlin: Donetsk, Lugansk call on Putin for military assistance
Leaders of the breakaway Ukrainian “Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasetsnik have written letters calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to repel the “Ukrainian attack”, said Dmitry V. Petrov. . “Taking into account the situation as it stands, and also in order to prevent civilian casualties and a humanitarian catastrophe, the […]
