Luhansk governor says loss was painful and he expects Sloviansk and Bakhmut to now face heavy attack
Russian forces are trying to press deeper into eastern Ukraine and seize the entire Donetsk region after capturing neighbouring Luhansk, the Luhansk governor has said.
Ukraine’s military command confirmed on Sunday evening that its troops had been forced to pull back from the city of Lysychansk, the last bulwark of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk, one of the two regions that make up the country’s eastern industrial heartland of Donbas.
