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Russia Claims It Has Encircled Key Eastern Ukrainian City Of Lysychansk

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Russia Claims It Has Encircled Key Eastern Ukrainian City Of  Lysychansk

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Russia Claims It Has Encircled Key Eastern Ukrainian City Of  Lysychansk

Calls to the Ukrainian General Staff and Defence Ministry went unanswered.

Russian troops have encircled the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Lysychansk, Ukraine’s final main stronghold within the Luhansk area, the Russian defence ministry mentioned on Sunday.

Russia has centered on driving Ukrainian forces out of Luhansk and Donetsk areas within the Donbas, the place Moscow-backed separatists have been combating Kyiv since Russia’s first navy intervention in Ukraine in 2014.

The defence ministry mentioned its troops had captured the villages surrounding Lysychansk, encircling the world, and have been now combating Ukrainian troops contained in the city.

“Russian troops and units of the Luhansk People’s Republic are fighting inside Lysychansk, completely defeating the encircled enemy,” the ministry mentioned in an announcement.

Calls to the Ukrainian General Staff and Defence Ministry went unanswered. The ministry didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark.

The Russian defence ministry added that it had struck navy infrastructure within the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv, in addition to a base utilized by overseas fighters on the outskirts of Mykolaiv within the nation’s south.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)

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