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Luhansk
[ loo-hansk; Ukrainian loo-hahnsk ]
- a city in eastern Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
Example Sentences
Eastern Ukraine has been contested territory since 2014, when Russian-backed fighters seized large swathes of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
“I see the end of the war only when we reach the 1991 borders of our country, when Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk were ours.”
Some families do not share details of their relatives’ deaths publicly - and our analysis does not include names we were unable to check, or the deaths of militia in Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
He said they had been captured defending the regions of Kyiv, Donetsk, Mariupol, Azovstal, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv.
Not only had it not worked, Putin argued that Ukraine's offensive had merely helped Moscow's "primary objective", which he identified as capturing the Donbas - Ukraine's industrial regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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