Russia declares full control of Luganskwu, denies, says will not end fight for Donbass
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 (Xinhua) Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency reporters abroad reported: According to the Russian Ministry of Defense on the 3rd, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on the same day that the Russian army has complete control of Luhansk. Ukrainian News Agency quoted Yuri Sak, an adviser to the Ukrainian Defense Minister on the 3rd, as saying that Lisichansk is not fully controlled by the Russian army, and the battle for Donbass will not end.
——According to news from the Russian Ministry of Defense on the 3rd, Shoigu reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the same day that the Russian army had “liberated” the Luhansk region. Thanks to successful combat operations, the Russian army and the Luhansk Armed Forces have taken full control of the city of Lisichansk and its surrounding settlements.
——According to the Ukrainian News Agency on the 3rd, Sak told the media that day that Lisichansk was not fully controlled by the Russian army. Sack said that even if Russia captures the entire Luhansk region, the battle for the Donbass will not end. In the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian army still controls some large cities, which have become the Russian army in the past few days. Targets of rockets and artillery.
——Ukrainian News Agency quoted local military departments in Ukraine on the 3rd and reported that as of the morning of the 3rd, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Nikolayev, Dnipropetrovsk , Odessa and other areas were attacked by Russian troops in the past day.
——The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the 3rd that the Ukrainian army used “Dot-U” missiles and drones with cluster munitions to strike residential areas in Belgorod and Kursk, Russia in the early morning of the same day. . Both the missile and the drone were destroyed by Russian air defenses, and a missile fragment landed on a residential building in Belgorod. Belgorod Governor Gladkov posted on social media on the same day that the attack killed 4 people, injured 4 people, and damaged 61 homes.
——Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Konashenkov reported on the 3rd that the special military operation of the Russian army in Ukraine continued to advance, and the Ukrainian side suffered heavy losses in all directions. Since the launch of the special military operation, the Russian army has destroyed a total of 229 Ukrainian aircraft, 134 helicopters, 1,440 drones, 353 sets of anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,893 tanks and other armored vehicles, 704 multiple rocket launchers, and 3,078 field artillery pieces. and mortars and 3979 special military vehicles.
——According to Ukrainian News Agency on the 3rd, Ukrainian Ambassador to France Vadim Omelchenko said in a TV program that French aid weapons and equipment will arrive in Ukraine in the next few weeks, including “Caesar” Self-propelled howitzer.