Russia says it has established full control over the Luhansk region after Ukrainian forces pulled out of the bombed-out city of Lysychansk
People wait to receive humanitarian aid as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 4 2022. Picture: REUTERS/MARKO DJURICA Russian forces in Ukraine will focus on trying to seize all of the Donetsk region, having forced Ukrainian troops to withdraw from the last major city under their control in the neighbouring Luhansk region, the governor of Luhansk said on Monday.
“Still, for them goal number 1 is the Donetsk region. Sloviansk and Bakhmut will come under attack — Bakhmut has already started being shelled very hard,” he said. President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday night vowed to regain the lost territory with the help of long-range Western weapons. Russia says what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine aims to protect Russian speakers from nationalists. Ukraine and its Western allies say this is a baseless pretext for flagrant aggression that aims to seize territory.
“Ukraine’s position was never that they could defend all of this. What they’ve been trying to do is to slow down the Russian assault and cause maximum damage, while they build up for a counteroffensive,” he said.
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