A Ukrainian regional governor says Russian troops are becoming increasingly careless in Ukraine's east, adding to morale issues.
A Ukrainian regional governor in the country's war-torn east says that up to 100 Russian soldiers could have died in an explosion in the recently occupied city of Lysychansk.
Gaidai told the news outlet that Russian troops were conducting a large offensive from the side of an oil refinery and suggested that"some careless smoking" may have caused the deadly explosion in Lysychansk, which Russiato have"liberated" as the last major holdout in the Luhansk administrative district.
A resident walks past a destroyed building in the city of Lysychansk on July 12, 2022. Ukraine's regional governor of Luhansk said an explosion might have killed up to 100 Russian troops.The Kremlin initially planned to quickly take Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv after launching its invasion of the country on February 24.
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