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Russia says its forces have full control of Ukraine's Luhansk region
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MOSCOW, 04 July 2022, (TON): Russia said “it had taken full control of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk after capturing the final Ukrainian bastion of the city of Lysychansk, where Kyiv said it had withdrawn to save the lives of its troops.”
The region's capture, a key Russian war aim, hands Moscow a boost after weeks of slow advances and shifts the battlefield focus to the neighbouring Donetsk region, where Kyiv still controls substantial territory.
Since abandoning an assault on the capital Kyiv, Russia has concentrated its military operation on the industrial Donbas heartland that comprises the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, where Moscow-backed separatist proxies have been fighting Ukraine.
Russia said “it is capturing the Luhansk region in order to give it to the Russian-backed Luhansk People's Republic whose independence it recognised on the eve of the war.”
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