The head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai, said that Russian troops are preparing for offensive operations in February in the Lugansk direction..

" Next month, the training course of the newly mobilized is just coming to an end and, most likely, they will come to the Lugansk region,"

According to him, the leadership of the Russian Federation delivered an ultimatum to the Gauleiters of the temporarily occupied territories of the Lugansk region:

either the Russian Federation will enter the administrative borders of the region before April 1, or there will be "

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The Russian occupying army is preparing to launch a decisive counterattack in the Luhansk region to prevent the advance of Ukrainian troops into Kremennaya and reject them. To do this, they are trying to disperse Ukrainian units, forcing them to respond to their attacks in other directions.. This is stated in the report of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).