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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin will have assumed total control of the Ukrainian region. Confirmation, Lugansk, becomes the first Ukrainian region under total Russian control since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Russia took on the total control of the region of Luganskin eastern Ukraine more than three years after the start of the invasion ordered by Vladimir Putin in February 2022.
The information was advanced by Leonid Pasechnik, responsible installed by Moscow and presented as leader of the self -proclaimed “Popular Republic of Lugansk”to Russian state television.
“The territory of the Popular Republic of Luhansk is totally free – 100%,” said Pasechnik, quoted by.
To confirm the region, with about 26,700 square kilometers, thus becomes the First Ukrainian Region under Russian total control Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
The incorporation of Lugansk into the Russian Federation was formally declared by Putin in September 2022, along with Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporijia – regions whose annexation is considered illegal by the majority of the international community.
Historically, Lugansk belonged to the Russian Empire and was integrated into the Soviet Union in 1922 as part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine. Since 2014, between separatist forces supported by Russia and the Ukrainian army, following the fall of the Pro-Russian President in Kiev and the Annexation of Crimea by Moscow.
Despite the announcement, there was no immediate confirmation from the Russian Ministry of Defense, nor official reaction from Ukraine. Kiev rejects Russian territorial claims and maintains that he will never recognize Moscow’s sovereignty over any part of his territory.
Currently, the Russia controls about 19% From the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine, including much of the regions of Donetsk, Zaporijia and Kherson, as well as parts of the regions of Kharkiv, Sumi and Dnipropetrovsk.
In mid -June, Vladimir the possession of the whole neighboring country.
“I already said it many times, I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people the same people. In that sense, All Ukraine is ours“, He defended, citing” an old rule “to the moderator of the debate:” where the boot of a Russian soldier Pisa, is ours. “
