on social media of chechen fighters, fighters from russia, saying they were in central lysychansk and celebrating its capture. they were shouting allahu akbar, god is great, and they were celebrating, saying that they d taken the city. this is a really important city, the last big, significant one that has remained under ukrainian control in the luhansk region of the donbas, in eastern ukraine. since then, what we have had is a statement from the defence ministry in moscow claiming that lysychansk had fallen to their forces. and we have then heard that the defence minister himself has been and told vladimir putin, the russian president, that not only lysychansk but the whole of the luhansk region of the donbas is under russian control. that is disputed by ukraine, they say there has been intense fighting but lysychansk the city itself is not yet encircled.
alps, local media saying five people have been killed. will believe this happened in the dolomites, 60 miles north of venice. that is the only information we have at the moment, that five people have been killed in the collapse of a glacier in the dolomites, north of venice. more as that comes in. the russian defence ministry says its troops have gained control of the eastern ukrainian region of luhansk. moscow s forces had been encircling lysychansk, the last city in the area which is still being defended by ukraine. earlier, we spoke with yuriy sak, spokesman for the ukrainian ministry of defence, who countered russia s claim. we ve been hearing these claims, actually, from yesterday, and these claims have not been confirmed yet by the ukraine s general staff, the armed forces of ukraine, neither by the local administration and authorities. what we can say with certainty, of course, is the situation in lysychansk has been very intense
these reports of russia capturing the city began yesterday evening, in fact, we started seeing pictures on social media of chechen fighters, fighters from russia, saying they were in central lysychansk and celebrating its capture. shouting a la akbar, god is great, and they were celebrating, celebrating taking the city. of this important city, the city. of this important city, the last big, a significant one that has remained under ukrainian control in the lathan sked region of the donbas, in eastern ukraine. so what we have had since then its a statement from the defence ministry in moscow claiming that lithgow had fallen to their forces, and we have then heard that the defence has been and told vladimir putin, the russian president is that not only lysychansk but the whole of the luhansk region of the donbas is under russian control. that is disputed by ukraine, they say there
always confusing, we talk of the fog of war the lack of clarity, and the donbas has had more than its fair share of dance, the are pretty confident in all their internal and external comms that they have achieved not only via capture of lucy hanks but also the complete capture of lu ha nsk lucy hanks but also the complete capture of luhansk oblast completely, one of their aims, and the one they have always being to achieving, and we have expected this development for some since severodonetsk fell and the pressure towards the encircling of lysychansk began around a week ago. we are about 72 days into this and this is the first thing that the russians have achieved in the dom bess. what have achieved in the dom bess. what does this mean have achieved in the dom bess. what does this mean for have achieved in the dom bess. what does this mean for the have achieved in the dom bess. what does this mean for the wider region, in the context of the russian aims and goals? in the context o
but this is clearly a key moment, you don t normally get the defence minister of russia telling vladimir putin his forces have taken an entire region unless he s pretty confident that that s the truth on the ground. earlier, we spoke with yuriy sak, spokesman for the ukrainian ministry of defence, who countered russia s claim. we ve been hearing these claims, actually, from yesterday, and these claims have not been confirmed yet by the ukraine s general staff, the armed forces of ukraine, neither by the local administration and authorities. what we can say with certainty, of course, is the situation in lysychansk has been very intense for quite a while now. after the battle for severodonetsk, lysychansk was the key focus of the russian offensive, their ground forces have been attacking lysychansk nonstop, the city was under intense artillery fire, missile fire, bombardments,