The Armed Forces of Ukraine have begun to de-occupy Luhansk Oblast, Serhiy Hayday, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, announced yesterday afternoon. “Now it’s official. The de-occupation of Luhansk Oblast has begun. Several settlements have already been liberated from the Russian army. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are already raising the Ukrainian flags there. Let’s move on,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
In the evening, he announced the liberation of six settlements in the Luhansk Oblast and advised residents of the oblast who are still in the occupied territory to “move away from the front line or stay near shelters.”
Hayday also told Radio Svoboda about the preparation of the Russian invaders for the defense of Kreminna. “We have information that there are quite a lot of occupiers there and they are mining everything. They scatter butterfly mines, mine roads, mine houses. Well, that is, they are preparing for defense or to slow down the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
He emphasized that Kreminna is a “strategically important city, as from there the Ukrainian military can advance towards Starobilsk, Rubizhne, and Severodonetsk.”
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