Putin declares victory in Luhansk Oblast after Ukrainian troops withdraw

RussiaPresidentVladimir Putindeclares victory in the eastern LuhanskUkraineregion on Monday, the day after the Ukrainian troops withdraw. did. The last remaining resistance breakwater in the state.

Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoig reported to Putin at a video conference on Monday, reporting that Russian troops ruled Luhansk. Luhansk, along with the neighboring province of Donetsk, constitutes the industrial center of Donbus in Ukraine.

Shoig told Putin that the "operation" was completed on Sunday after Russian troops conquered the city of Lisichansk, the last base of Ukrainian troops in Luhansk.

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Putin said in Luhansk that military units that "participated in active hostilities and achieved success and victory" should "rest and improve their fighting ability."

Putin's Declaration is the Russian Army after the Ukrainian Army confirms that the Ukrainian Army has withdrawn from Lysichansk. Was made when he tried to push the attack into eastern Ukraine. Sunday. Luhansk Governor Serhii Haidai said on Monday that Ukrainian troops had withdrawn from the city so that they would not be surrounded.

"There was a risk of siege of Lisichansk," Haidai told the Associated Press that Ukrainian troops could hold up for a few more weeks, but could have paid too high a price. Added.

"We managed to withdraw intensively and evacuate all the injured," Haidai said. "We have regained all our equipment, so the withdrawal was well organized from this point on."

The Ukrainian general said that the Russian army is now on the routes of Siversk, Fedrifka and Bakumut in the Donetsk region, about half of which is dominated by Russia. Russian troops have also stepped up the artillery of the major Ukrainian fortresses of Sloviansk and Kramatrusk, which are deeper in Donetsk.

On Sunday, six people, including a nine-year-old girl, were killed in Russian Sloviansk artillery, and another 19 were killed. According to the local government, he was injured. Kramatorsk also fired on Sunday.

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A briefing on Monday from the British Department of Defense, the intelligence agency, supported the Ukrainian army's assessment, saying that the Russian army would "almost certainly" switch to capturing Donetsk. According to the briefing, the conflict in Donbus is "frustration and exhaustion" and is unlikely to change in the coming weeks.

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The Russian army has a great advantage in firepower, but military analysts are the number of troops. In short, Moscow lacks the resources to quickly acquire land, can only move slowly, and relies on heavy guns and rocket bullets to soften Ukraine's defenses.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made occupying the entire Donbus an important goal of the war in Ukraine. Moscow-backed separatists in Donbus have been fighting Ukrainian troops since 2014, when Russia declared independence from Kiif after annexing Ukrainian Crimea. Russia officially approved the self-proclaimed republic a few days before the February 24 invasion of Ukraine.

Nightly video speech So, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy admitted withdrawal, but Ukrainian troops vowed to fight their way home.

"Our army's orders are specific to the front where the enemy has the greatest fire advantage. This is especially true when pulling people out of the point, for Lysychansk, that means only one thing. Thanks to the increased supply of modern weapons, we're back thanks to tactics, "Zelenskyy said. Told.

Unable to occupy Kiif and other areas in northeastern Ukraine in the early days of the war, Russia focused on Donbus, unleashed heavy fire and house-to-house from the devastated city of the region. Have been engaged in the fight against.

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Russia's invasion also hits the Ukrainian agricultural sector and disrupts the seed and fertilizer supply chain needed by Ukrainian farmers. And blocked the export of grain, which is the main source. Of national income.

In an intelligence report on Monday, the British Ministry of Defense pointed out Russia's blockade of Odesa, Ukraine's main port, which severely restricts grain exports. As a result, they predicted that Ukrainian agricultural exports would reach only 35% of the total in 2021 this year.

When Moscow launched an attack in the eastern part of Ukraine, the western part of Russia was attacked on Sunday with the resurgence of sporadic and apparent Ukrainian strikes across borders. The governor of the Bergorodo region of western Russia said that intercepted fragments of Ukrainian missiles killed four people on Sunday. Two Ukrainian drones were shot down in the Russian city of Kursk, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Other developments:

_ Ukrainian soldiers returning from the forefront of the Donbus region in eastern Ukraine _ Russia is making a fierce attack _ Describes life as apocalyptic during the transition to a fierce exhaustion war.

_ Dozens of Russian diplomatic staff and their families amid a mass expulsion of two Russian planes leaving Bulgaria on Sunday and tensions surged among historically close countries. There were also people, Russian diplomats said.

Related press journalists Maria Grazia Murru and Oleksandr Stashevskyi contributed from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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