The Latest Breaking News from Luhansk

Governor of Luhansk urges people to evacuate as Vladimir Putin insists Moscow will achieve its ‘noble’ aims

Images of the brown cloud of noxious gas appeared, reportedly near under-fire Luhansk Oblast.

Fierce fighting to erupt in the battle for the Donbas over the next two to three weeks, British defence chiefs say

Russia has nearly completed its buildup of forces for a renewed assault on Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukraine's defence ministry said on Monday.

The strike reportedly took place in the easternmost Ukrainian region of Luhansk Oblast during the night of April 10 to April 11.

In a video address to South Korea's National Assembly, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is concentrating thousands of troops in Ukraine's eastern regions, saying his country will "need more help if we are to survive this war".

The death toll from a missile strike on the train station in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk has risen to 57 people, Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Sunday. The announcement comes after Russian forces retreated from the Ukrainian capital’s surroundings, finally allowing emergency workers access to the formerly occupied areas. Read…

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Sunday said that Kyiv had agreed the use of nine humanitarian corridors to help people to escape heavy fighting in the east of the country, including in private cars from Mariupol. "All the routes for the humanitarian corridors in the Luhansk region will…

A school and a high-rise apartment building were shelled early on Sunday in the city of Sievierodonetsk in the besieged Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the governor said.

Governor issues warning as US says Moscow likely planning to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers in east

More people need to evacuate from the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine as shelling has increased in recent days and more Russian forces have been arriving, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Saturday.