Ukraine: Putin orders the continuation of the Russian offensive after the capture of the Lugansk region – Le Figaro

Vladimir Putin spoke with his Defense Minister, saying that Russian forces “must carry out their missions according to the plans already approved”. Vladimir Putin ordered his forces on Monday July 4 to continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine, after the conquest of the entire Lugansk region. Read alsoFaced with Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Russian society between resilience and denial of reality The Russian forces “must carry out their missions according to the plans already approved”, declared Vladimir Putin during an interview with his minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, broadcast on television. “I hope that in their sectors everything will happen as it happened in Lugansk,” he added. These statements come the day after the announcement of the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the strategic city of Lysytchansk, a takeover which completes the control of the Lugansk region by Russian forces and the separatists put in place by Moscow. The Lugansk region and the neighboring Donetsk region form the Donbass, a mining basin in eastern Ukraine that Moscow’s forces intend to conquer in its entirety. Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Minister of Defense, said Monday that the forces of Moscow were in the process of “demining the city of Lysytchansk”. “Heroes of Russia” Vladimir Putin also indicated that two of his generals, Alexandre Lapin and Essedoulla Abatchev, will be made “Heroes of Russia” for their role in the fighting in Ukraine, without further details. Russia, very secret about this type of information, had recently revealed the names of two generals, Sergei Surovikin and Alexander Lapin, in charge of the offensive on Lyssytchansk. Monday, Vladimir Poutin indicated that these two men had directly reported to him (Monday) on the course taken by the execution of their missions and their proposals for the continuation of the offensive operations . Read also”It’s a recolonization”: how Russia annexes Ukraine west and the key cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the two largest cities in Donbass still controlled by the kyiv army. On Monday, a senior separatist official, Vitali Kiseliev, said that forces from Moscow were now advancing from two directions towards the locality of Siversk, on the way to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.