Invaders announce large-scale military exercises in Luhansk region

As the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook, the so-called local authorities in the temporarily occupied and captured territories of Luhansk region announced the start of large-scale military exercises involving all male residents of Starobilsk, Shchastia, Novyi Aydar, Novopskov, and Nizhnioteple of conscription age who have passports of ‘LPR’ and the Russian Federation. In this way, the occupiers are trying to conceal the total mobilization in the above-mentioned settlements.

At the same time, the enemy has started building fortifications and trenches between the settlements of Ishun and Voyenka in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The civilian population is forced to build them without receiving payment.

As reported, the enemy launched 34 airstrikes, 11 of them using Shahed-136 UAVs, over the past day. Ten UAVs were destroyed by the Ukrainian air defense units, another one hit an industrial infrastructure object. No civilian casualties were reported.