The ministry added the Russian Armed Forces and the People’s Militia of the LPR have established full control over Lisichansk and a number of nearby settlements, the largest of which are Belogorovka, Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantsevo, and Belaya Gora
MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin on the liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Sunday.
“On July 3, 2022, the Russian Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergey Shoigu reported to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin on the liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic,” the ministry said.
The ministry added the Russian Armed Forces and the People’s Militia of the LPR have established full control over Lisichansk and a number of nearby settlements, the largest of which are Belogorovka, Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantsevo, and Belaya Gora. “The total area of the territories liberated over the past 24 hours reached 182 square km,” the Russian Defense Ministry stressed.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic for help.
Three Ukrainian citizens killed in Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on Belgorod,One is a Russian citizen
MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Three citizens of Ukraine and one Russian citizen were among people killed in the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Belgorod on Sunday morning, according to Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
“According to our current data, four people have died. One of them is a Russian citizen, three are citizens of Ukraine. So, the government of Ukraine is killing Ukrainian citizens on the territory of Russia. This is absolute peak cynicism,” Gladkov wrote in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the governor reported that a series of loud noises was heard in Belgorod on Sunday morning. Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian air defense systems destroyed in the air three Tochka-U ballistic missiles with cluster munitions launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards Belgorod, fragments of one of Ukrainian missiles fell on a residential building in the city.
