The Latest Breaking News from Luhansk

Ukraine’s General Staff says Russia is increasing the pace of its offensive in the east of the country

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Fighting intensifies across cities in Kharkiv and Luhansk regions as Russia presses its offensive into the east.

Russian troops are pressing their offensive in the eastern Donbas region in an attempt to fully seize Ukraine's industrial heartland but have made little headway as fierce Ukrainian counterattacks have slowed their efforts, Ukrainian and British officials said Saturday. Russia continues to fight for full control of the Donetsk and…

All the Ukrainian-controlled cities in the eastern region of Luhansk were constantly being shelled by Russian forces on Saturday and the barrage was intensifying, the region's governor Serhiy Haidai said on television.

The Ukraine military’s general staff says that Russian forces continue their “offensive operations” in eastern Ukraine with the goal of defeating Ukrainian forces, establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and securing a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea

Some say a ‘special kind of paternalism’ runs through the Russian-speaking regions full of mines, factories and plants.

Russian forces continue the offensive in eastern Ukraine with the goal of establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions