Smoke rose on Monday from a former aviation school in the east of the city, which is used by the Russian military. The local pro-Moscow administration said the administrative building was damaged and the attack was carried out by British Storm Shadow missiles with a range of 250 km.
Similar attacks were carried out in Luhansk already on Friday and Saturday, when a multi-storey building and a factory where military equipment was stored were destroyed in the city. A Russian MP was also slightly injured.
Minister of the unrecognized Luhansk People’s Republic seriously injured in an assassination attempt. At the barber’s
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A destroyed industrial building in Luhansk
The local administration confirmed the attack 130 km behind the front, but according to it residential buildings were hit. Claims to have been taken by Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Russian media showed fragments of rockets, which they said were precisely this missile. On Monday, the spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, announced that one of these missiles had been shot down. However, he did not provide evidence.
The Russians managed to shoot down these missiles, which are originally of French origin, already over Syria. Five-meter long cruise missiles with a half-ton warhead have little radar reflection, making them difficult to detect, but are subsonic at speeds of just over 800 km/h.
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Britain has confirmed the delivery of these missiles to Ukraine, but it is not yet clear how the Ukrainians would launch them, as they are designed to be launched from aircraft and integrating new missiles into an aircraft’s armament is always a lengthy process.
The Daily Telegraph speculates that they could be delivered by some kind of booster rocket stage, as the Ukrainians do with another aerial munition, the small-diameter SBD bombs. Even these bombs with a range of up to 130 or 140 km could be used by the Ukrainians to attack Luhansk, which until now the Russian leadership considered safe because it was out of range of HIMARS missiles, although within range of Point U missiles.
They had already started evacuating residents from the city.
The Russians are evacuating families of soldiers from the Luhansk region
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Will it lead to an attack on the Luhansk region?
The shelling of Luhansk shows that the Ukrainians want to complicate the situation of the Russian troops in the north of Ukraine, which are supplied via Luhansk or by the route from Russia via Starobilsk.
This suggests the possibility that the leadership of the Ukrainian army may not only be trying to ease the situation for its soldiers at Lyman, but that an attack on Severodonetsk and Lysychansk could follow.
Colors in Bachmut
He continues to fight at Bachmut. Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyarova said on Monday that Ukrainian troops have been advancing in the city for the past few days.
Oleksandr Syrskyj, commander of Ukraine’s Force Group East, called these counterattacks the first success in defending Bakhmut, but only a partial one.
Serhiy Cherevaty, the spokesman for the East group of forces, specified that in some places it was possible to advance by 150 to 600 meters, but the Russians are still trying to surround the city.
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