The capture brings Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of Ukraine’s Donbas region.
took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine's Luhansk province, but Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is disputing those claims. that Russia's troops together with members of a local separatist militia "have established full control over the city of Lysychansk," a ministry statement said.
Smoke billows over the oil refinery outside the town of Lysychansk on June 23, 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. Earlier Sunday, Luhansk's governor said Russian forces were strengthening their positions in a grueling fight to capture the last stronghold of resistance in the province.
Pro-Russia separatists have held portions of both eastern provinces since 2014, and Moscow recognizes all of Luhansk and Donetsk as sovereign republics. Syria’s government said Wednesday that it would also recognize the "independence and sovereignty" of the two areas. Elsewhere in the war, the exiled mayor of the Russia-occupied city of Melitopol said Sunday that Ukrainian rockets destroyed one of four Russian military bases in the city.
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