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Ukraine has recaptured its first village in Luhansk, a region that Russian forces took five months to bomb into submission and conquer.
Belogorovka is the latest prize for Ukraine’s continuing counter-offensive pushing Russia away from the second city of Kharkiv.
The village lies only a dozen or so miles from the towns of Lysychansk and Severdonestsk, key regional economic centres in the wider Donbas region that the Kremlin has promised to defend at all costs.
The village also lies 45 miles east of the Oskil River, where Russian forces fled after a Ukrainian offensive around Kharkiv recaptured an area the size of Devon in a few days.
Serhiy Gaidai, the Ukrainian head of Luhansk, said that Ukrainian soldiers were now in “full control” of Belogorovka.
“We all should be patient in anticipation of a large-scale de-occupation of the Luhansk region,” he said.
Luhansk and neighbouring Donetsk rebelled against Ukraine in 2014 and fought a war to set up pro-Russia pseudo-states. The Kremlin used defending them as an excuse to launch its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.
But now, armed with high tech Western weapons, top-grade US intelligence and sky-high morale, Ukrainian forces have promised to retake the whole of Luhansk.
This would be yet another humiliation for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, whose forces had celebrated pushing Ukrainian forces out of Luhansk at the start of July.
Ukraine has recaptured its first village in Luhansk, a region that Russian forces took five months to bomb into submission and conquer.
Belogorovka is the latest prize for Ukraine’s continuing counter-offensive pushing Russia away from the second city of Kharkiv.
The village lies only a dozen or so miles from the towns of Lysychansk and Severdonestsk, key regional economic centres in the wider Donbas region that the Kremlin has promised to defend at all costs.
The village also lies 45 miles east of the Oskil River, where Russian forces fled after a Ukrainian offensive around Kharkiv recaptured an area the size of Devon in a few days.
Serhiy Gaidai, the Ukrainian head of Luhansk, said that Ukrainian soldiers were now in “full control” of Belogorovka.
“We all should be patient in anticipation of a large-scale de-occupation of the Luhansk region,” he said.
Luhansk and neighbouring Donetsk rebelled against Ukraine in 2014 and fought a war to set up pro-Russia pseudo-states. The Kremlin used defending them as an excuse to launch its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.
But now, armed with high tech Western weapons, top-grade US intelligence and sky-high morale, Ukrainian forces have promised to retake the whole of Luhansk.
This would be yet another humiliation for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, whose forces had celebrated pushing Ukrainian forces out of Luhansk at the start of July.