In the Lugansk region, the defence is holding out. The hardest situation is currently in the area of Girske, where the Russian army has fired on most of the surrounding villages.
Head of Luhans’k region state administration Serhiy Gaidai reported that the city of Schastya is 80% destroyed, two bridges in Novoaydar have been blown up, and in Starobil’sk Ukrainian artillery destroyed a column of Russian military equipment.
Illegal military formations shot at the Shakhta Rodina checkpoint in Luhansk oblast from small arms and grenade launchers, the State Border Guard Service reports on Tuesday, August 23.
On July 18 in the ATO zone in Luhansk Oblast, militants blew up an infantry fighting vehicle of the 93rd brigade that was on its way back from an assignment and fired shots at its crew.