The head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to leave Lysichansk without losses. The Ukrainian military retreated to ready-made fortified positions further west, informs the Air Force.

" We would have been surrounded and had to sit there while the city was shelled,"

According to him, the Russian army has a significant advantage in equipment and ammunition..

" Personally, it's hard and painful for me, but this is not a lost war.. It's just one battle we've lost. We needed to save our troops so that when enough Western-supplied weapons arrived, we could carry out normal operations and counterattack,” the head of the UVA stressed..

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On the eve of the General Staff reported that the Ukrainian military withdrew from their positions in the Lugansk region after heavy fighting for Lisichansk. Earlier, Sergey Gaidai noted that Russia attacked the city with incredible brutal tactics..

The Russian Federation said on Sunday that its forces and their allies have taken control of the eastern region of the Luhansk region after capturing the last Ukrainian stronghold of Lysychansk..