UKRAINE SAYS IT HAS REPELLED RUSSIAN ATTACKS IN LUHANSK REGION

Wed 15 February 2023:

Ukrainian forces have repelled some Russian attacks in Luhansk, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office has said after Moscow claimed its own troops had made advances in the eastern region.

“Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by the (Russian) occupiers in the Nevskyi, Kreminna and Bilohorivka districts,” Zelenskyy’s office said in a statement.

“The situation in the region remains difficult,” it added, noting Russian forces had shelled a number of other communities in the region.

The statement made no mention of any retreats by Ukrainian soldiers in its report on the fighting.

Russia says its forces have advanced in Luhansk

Russia says its troops have broken through two fortified lines of Ukrainian defences in the partly occupied eastern Luhansk region, pushing Kyiv’s forces back several kilometres in places.

The Russian Defence Ministry said the Ukrainians had retreated in the face of Russian attacks.

“During the offensive … the Ukrainian troops randomly retreated to a distance of up to three kilometres (1.9 miles) from the previously occupied lines,” the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.

“Even the more fortified second line of defence of the enemy could not hold the breakthrough of the Russian military,” it added, without providing further details. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the battlefield report.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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