Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency foreign correspondents reported: According to Russian Ministry of Defense 3 news, Russian Defense Minister Shoigu said that day that the Russian military has completely controlled Lugansk . On the 43rd, Ukraine News Agency quoted Yuri Sak, adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, as saying that Lisichansk was not completely controlled by the Russian army and the battle for Donbass would not end.
- According to news from the Russian Ministry of Defense on the 43rd, Shoigu reported to Russian President Putin on the same day that the Russian army had "liberated" the Luhansk area. Thanks to successful combat operations, the Russian army and the Luhansk armed forces have completely controlled the city of Lischichansk and its surrounding settlements.
- According to a report from Utong News Agency on the 3rd, Sack told the media that day that Lischichansk was not completely controlled by the Russian army. Sack said that even if Russia captures the entire Lugansk region, the battle for Donbass will not end. In the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian army still controls some large cities. In the past few days, these cities have become The attack targets of Russian army rockets and artillery .
- On the 3rd, Uzbek News Agency quoted news from various local military departments in Ukraine as reporting that as of the morning of the 3rd, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkov, Sumy, Nikolaev, Dnipropetrovsk , Odessa and other areas were attacked by Russian troops in the past day.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the 3rd that the Ukrainian army used "Dot-U" missiles and drones equipped with cluster munitions to carry out attacks on residential areas in the Russian cities of Belgorod and Kursk in the early morning of that day. blow. Both the missile and the drone were destroyed by the Russian air defense system . One missile fragment fell on a residential building in Belgorod. Belgorod Region Governor Gladkov posted on social media that day that the attack resulted in 4 deaths, 4 injuries, and damage to 61 residential buildings.
- Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Konashenkov reported on the 3rd that the Russian army's special military operations in Ukraine continued to advance, and Ukraine suffered heavy losses in all directions. Since the launch of the special military operation, the Russian army has destroyed a total of 229 Ukrainian aircraft, 134 helicopters, 1,440 drones, 353 air defense missile systems, 3,893 tanks and other armored vehicles, and 704 multiple rocket launchers. , 3078 field artillery pieces and mortars and 3979 special military vehicles.
- According to a report by Ukraine News Agency on the 3rd, Vadim Omelchenko, the Ukrainian ambassador to France, said in a TV program that weapons and equipment assisted by France will arrive in Ukraine in the next few weeks, including " Kaiser" self-propelled howitzer .
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