Luhansk

[ loo-hansk; Ukrainian loo-hahnsk ]

1. 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.

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“I see the end of the war only when we reach the 1991 borders of our country, when Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk were ours.”

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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.

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He said they had been captured defending the regions of Kyiv, Donetsk, Mariupol, Azovstal, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv.

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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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