Ukraine: 3 months of war, luhansk region almost completely invaded

The war in Ukraine enters its fourth month on Tuesday, as Russian troops focus their offensive on the last pocket of resistance in the Luhansk region of the Donbass (east). After having distanced Russian forces from the country's two largest cities, the capital Kiev in late March and early April and Kharkiv in May, the Ukrainians have been acknowledging for a few days "difficulties" in the Donbass, formed by the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. "The next few weeks of war will be difficult," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Monday night in his daily televised address. "The Russian occupiers are trying to show that they will not abandon the occupied areas of the Kharkiv region (northeast), that they will not return the Kherson region (south), the occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region (southeast) and donbass (east). They are moving forward somewhere. They are strengthening their positions elsewhere," he continued.

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