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2022-07-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

~~Donbass~~ Lugansk republic fully liberated — Russian defense minister

[RT] The last remnants of Ukrainian forces have been driven out of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Sunday. He reported the news to President Vladimir Putin

" ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Shoigu said Russian troops and Donbass forces had completely seized Lisichansk, the last major city which had remained under Ukrainian control since 2014, when the LPR declared its independence shortly after a coup in Kiev.

Russia and Ukraine reported heavy fighting around Lisichansk earlier this week, with the most fierce combat occurring at the city’s oil refinery.

News of the capture of Lisichansk comes after Ukrainian troops retreated from Severodonetsk, a nearby city on the opposite side of the Seversky Donets River, last week. The fighting for Severodonetsk had lasted for several months.

Posted by Fred 2022-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 90% of the inhabitants of Lisichansk have fled.
So yes, it has been liberated... of its people.

Posted by European Conservative 2022-07-04 08:56|| 2022-07-04 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 What? But Putin and his apologists swear those people wanted to live free of Ukrainian oppression! Did they all flee to Russia?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-04 09:19|| 2022-07-04 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Who fled was a Nazi.
Who didn't flee an idiot.

Posted by European Conservative 2022-07-04 09:51|| 2022-07-04 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Btw a little correction of the headline: "Lugansk Republic", not "Donbass Republic".

Whatever republic means in these places.

Posted by European Conservative 2022-07-04 10:05|| 2022-07-04 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 ...oh, its the old "Peoples Democratic Republic of.."

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-04 10:08|| 2022-07-04 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Maryland!

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-07-04 11:02|| 2022-07-04 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Well Maryland has a republican guv. At least for a few more months. Although the legislature is full of far leftists

Posted by Uninesing Johnson9025 2022-07-04 11:20|| 2022-07-04 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Btw a little correction of the headline: "Lugansk Republic", not "Donbass Republic".

Corrected. Thank you for catching that, European Conservative.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-04 11:21|| 2022-07-04 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Well Maryland has a republican guv

Hogan is a Never Trump drooler.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-04 11:26|| 2022-07-04 11:26|| Front Page Top

#10 "Peoples Democratic Republic of.."

Exactly. Like North Korea.

Posted by European Conservative 2022-07-04 12:21|| 2022-07-04 12:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Big time, and that fatso is also a darling of the Sunday morning circuit, and you know what that means.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-07-04 12:22|| 2022-07-04 12:22|| Front Page Top

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