Moscow Claims Control Over Luhansk Region of Ukraine

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The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that Russian forces have “liberated” all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region.

The ministry on Sunday said Russian forces had captured Lysychansk, the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province.

Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin that Russia’s troops and members of a local separatist militia “have established full control over Lysychansk and some nearby settlements,” according to a post on the ministry’s Telegram channel.

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