Russia Takes Full Control of Ukraine's Luhansk Region: Kremlin Vantage on Firstpost
Russia Takes Full Control of Ukraine's Luhansk Region: Kremlin | Vantage on Firstpost | N18G
Moscow claims to have seized the entire Luhansk region of Ukraine, nearly three years into the Russia-Ukraine war that started in February 2022. This makes Luhansk the first Ukrainian region to be fully occupied by Russia since the Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. In September 2022, Putin had announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions — including Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — a move opposed by major western nations.
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