Russian troops attack Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine

Russian troops occupy the city of Lysychans'k and its surroundings to occupy the last stand in the easternUkraine Luhansk Oblast. Attacked on. The governor said on Saturday.

Ukrainian fighters spend weeks to protect the city and prevent it from falling toRussia, as the neighboring Severodonetsk did a week ago. Spent. The Russian Defense Ministry recently said the military controls an oil refinery on the edge of Lysychans'k, but Governor Luhansk Oblast reported on Friday that the fight for the facility was ongoing.

"To this day, the occupiers fired from all types of weapons available," Haidai said in a telegram messaging app on Saturday.

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Donetsk, adjacent to Luhansk, is the two states that make up the Donbas region, where Russia has focused its attacks since its withdrawal from northern Ukraine and the capital Kieu in the spring.

Pro-Russian separatists have held parts of both eastern states since 2014 , Moscow recognizes all of Luhansk and Donetsk as sovereign republics. The Syrian government also acknowledged two areas of "independence and sovereignty" on Wednesday and said it would work to establish diplomatic relations with separatists.

In Slovyansk, the main city of Donetsk, still under Ukrainian control, four people were killed when Russian troops fired cluster munitions late Friday, Mayor VadymLyakh said on Facebook. He said the attacked neighborhood did not contain any potential military targets.

Guidance of neighboring Belarus A few days ago, Russia's ally, Ukraine, launched missiles on military targets in Belarus' territory, alleging that they were all intercepted by air defense systems on Saturday. President Alexander Lukaschenko described it as a provocation, stating that Belarusian soldiers were not fighting in Ukraine. There was no immediate response from the Ukrainian army.

Belarus hosted Russian troops and was used as the stage for the Russian invasion. Last week, a few hours before Lukaschenko met Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Russian long-range bomber launched its first missile from Belarus' airspace into Ukraine.

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Lukaschenko has resisted efforts to bring his army into war. However, during the meeting, Putin announced plans for Russia to supply Belarus with the Iskander-M missile system, reminding Lukaschenko how dependent his government was on financial support from Russia.

Saturday Lukaschenko also claimed that two Belarusian truck drivers were killed in Ukraine. Ukraine said the truck driver was at a gas station when it was hit by a Russian airstrike in March, but Lukaschenko claimed that organs had been cut from the body to hide evidence of the shooting.

Investigators elsewhere in Ukraine, saying he strongly condemned'Canada' In a residential area near the port of Ukraine, Odesa killed 21 people who passed through the remains of a Russian air bomb at the beginning of Friday.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Benedictova said investigators are recovering debris from missiles that struck an apartment in the small coastal town of Serhifka. She said she was making measurements to determine "certain people convicted of horrific war crimes."

Larissa Andruchenko said she was making tea in the kitchen around 1 am when the blast opened the door. At first, she thought the propane gas tank had exploded and called her husband to the kitchen.

"And then the lights went out and it was a nightmare. We were both in the kitchen where the glass was flying and everything was flying," she said.

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Ukrainian President Wolodimir Zelensky attacked a "normal house, nine-story building" with three anti-ship missiles accommodating about 160 people. He said the victims of the attack on Friday included four family members staying at a seaside campsite.

"I emphasize: this is a deliberate direct Russian terrorist attack, not some mistakes or accidental missile attacks," Zelensky said.

The British Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that air-launched anti-ship missiles generally do not have accurate accuracy with respect to ground targets. Russia is likely to be using such missiles due to the lack of more accurate weapons, he said.

The Kremlin repeatedly claims that the Russian army is targeting fuel depots and military facilities rather than residential areas. However, missiles have also been recently attacked in Kieu's apartments and shopping malls in the central city of the Kremlin.

On Saturday, Kremenchuk Mayor Vitaliy Maletskyy said the death toll from the mall attack had risen to 21 and one was still missing.

Ukrainian authorities have launched a missile attack in Odesa with the withdrawal of Russian troops from the nearby Black Sea Island, which is symbolic and strategically important in the war that began with Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24. I interpreted it as a reward for.

Moscow described the departure from Snake Island as a "good faith gesture" and helped block grain exports.

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