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A topographic map of the oblast. Luhansk Oblast is in far eastern Ukraine.Its north–south length is 250 km, and east–west width 190 km. It covers an area of 26,700 km 2, 4.42% of the total area of Ukraine.
As of 2022, the population was estimated to be 397,677 (2022 estimate), [1] making Luhansk the 12th-largest city in Ukraine. Luhansk served as the administrative center of Luhansk Oblast, before pro-Russian separatists seized control of the city in 2014 and made it the capital of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.
Rovenky is located in Luhansk oblast, in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, and Rovenky is in the southern part of the oblast. It is 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the region center, Luhansk. There are a number of villages near Rovenky, including the following: Djerzhinskyi, Tasenovskiy, Nagolno-Tarasovskyi, and Bolshekamenskiy.
Kremlin-orchestrated independence referenda were held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in what Western leaders described as illegal annexations and a “blatant flouting of ...
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack.
On 21 February 2022, Russia officially recognized the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic and, three days later, started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, during which they occupied territory in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, with formal military occupations beginning in the first week. [19]
The LPR claims direct succession to Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast. From 2014 to 2022, Ukraine, the United Nations, and most of the international community regarded the LPR as an illegal entity occupying a portion of Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast (see: International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War). The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), which had ...
Khrustalnyi [a] or Krasnyi Luch [b] is a city in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.Its population is approximately 79,533 (2022 estimate). [1] It has historically been one of the most important coal mining locations in the Donbas region.