Fighting underway near 4 towns and villages on administrative border between Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts – Luhansk Oblast Military Administration

IRYNA BALACHUK – SATURDAY, 20 AUGUST 2022, 08:41

Russian forces conduct several offensive operations in Luhansk Oblast every day, from several directions at once. Fighting is currently underway near four towns and villages on the administrative border between Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.

Source: Serhii Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram

Quote from Haidai: "Yesterday [19 August - ed.] the enemy mounted an offensive [on several] fronts, attempting to advance by a couple hundred metres, but our soldiers decisively repelled [the enemy troops]. Overnight, the Russians resumed their attempts [to advance], [but] the Ukrainian defenders are holding the line. The Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled a total of seven enemy attacks on 19 August on our stretch of the front; they didn’t allow a single breakthrough."

Details: The head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration added that the Russians carried out two airstrikes on the oblast, firing five rockets on Ukrainian towns and villages and military fortifications. Russian tank units conducted four assault operations.

In addition, Russian forces used rocket artillery to carry out 12 attacks on Luhansk Oblast over the course of the previous day.

Haidai also reported that the Russian occupiers are struggling with their workforce in Rubizhne, Lysychansk, Sievierodonetsk and Kreminna. Local residents refuse to work [for the Russians] because they know they will not get paid and because they are weary of [forced] mobilisation.

The head of the Oblast Military Administration said that the Russian occupiers are currently looking for people to clear away the rubble [of the destroyed buildings in Russian-occupied cities] as well as for security guards. A lot of vacancies have also opened up in the occupiers’ security forces in the last couple of weeks, even in the cities and towns that were captured in 2014.

Haidai said that perhaps the security forces vacancies might be an attempt at covert mobilisation conducted by the occupiers.

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