The head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai noted that the situation in the Lugansk region remains difficult, but is fully controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
" It's not even offensive, it's analysis. Somewhere they are (Russian troops - ed.. ) are trying to find weak spots in our defense.
The number of shellings has increased, the number of attacks in the Svatovsk-Kremensk direction has increased,"
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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).