A significant amount of destruction was recorded in the Luhansk region over the past day, and four people were killed, head of the regional military administration Sergei Gaidai said on Thursday morning..

Currently, the region is de-energized, Severodonetsk received the most damage, as well as settlements of the Popasnyanskaya community, where the Russians actively used aircraft.

“Severodonetsk was shelled from the very morning. In some places, due to heavy shelling, rescuers were not able to go to the fire sites for two hours. At least eight houses damaged, some on fire. On May 18, four people were killed in the city, three more were injured,” Gaidai said..

In particular, the bodies of two women with no signs of life were found after examining the apartment, where an enemy shell hit in the morning.. A man died near one of the houses, on the same street a woman and a man came under fire from the Russians. The first died on the spot, the man with shrapnel lesions was hospitalized.

Sergei Gaidai added that two more residents of Severodonsk were injured - shrapnel wounds and a shell shock, and a woman's arm was torn off in Lisichansk. It also became known about three dead earlier - these are residents of Belogorovka and Popasnaya.

Also the day before, the invaders used aircraft to destroy civilian objects in the areas of the settlements of Loskutovka, Ekaterinovka and Orekhovo..

“They carried out assault actions in the area of \u200b\u200bUstinovka and Zolote-4, they were not successful. Settlements have numerous destructions. Damage to houses was also recorded in Vrubovka, Pochechnoye and Kamyshevakh,” added the head of the OVA.

In total, sixteen enemy attacks were repulsed in the Lugansk and Donetsk directions of the past day, eight tanks, seventeen armored vehicles, four special armored vehicles and six conventional enemy vehicles were destroyed. Also, air defense units shot down an enemy Su-34 fighter-bomber.

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The Russian army, most likely, abandoned the goal of completely cordoning off the Ukrainian detachments deployed from Donetsk to Izyum. At the same time, the invaders focused on the complete capture of the Lugansk region.