Russian troops in the Luhansk region are storming Popasna and Rubizhne and are trying to go deep into the city, said the head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai, on Facebook.

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According to him, fighting continues in Popasnaya and Rubizhne,.

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Russian troops are accumulating forces for the offensive and increasing the number of shelling of the entire region.

" At the same time, the Russians bombarded Severodonetsk. The regional center began to be shelled on a quarterly basis,"

He urged everyone in the area to evacuate..

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Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the presidential office, said that the most fierce battles between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian troops continue in the south-west of the Lugansk region and in the zone of the Joint Forces Operation.