The last Ukrainian bastion in a key eastern province is now in Russian hands. The fall of Lysychansk hands Russia control of one half of the eastern industrial heartland where its war has been focused for months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's report during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday.further in neighboring, which together with Luhansk makes up the industrial region known as the Donbas, so attention was turning toward what the capture might mean for the future of the Russian invasion.
But while Moscow may treat it as such, Ukraine’s withdrawal does not yet amount to a strategic breakthrough for Russia, Neil Melvin, director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, said. “But Ukraine has lost some territory and will need to ensure that Russia is not able to build significant momentum,” he said.Taking the whole of the Donbas, a mineral-rich region that was partially controlled by Moscow-backed separatists before the invasion, has been the Kremlin’s focus for months.behind an artillery barrage that has devastated the region’s villages and towns.
Observers say the capture of Luhansk will give Moscow a more solid base from which to launch deeper attacks into the neighboring Donetsk province.
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