Russia takes full control of Ukraine's Luhansk region | DW News

Russia has claimed full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region. That's after the Ukrainian military withdrew from Lysychansk, the last CITY in the region under their control. Commanders said they decided to withdraw to save their troops' lives.
It brings Russia a step closer to controlling the entire Donbas region. But Ukraine has vowed it will recover the lost territory, with the help of more weapons.

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[marcojordan]

February: Russia will fail
March: Russia ran out of weapons
April: Ukraine is winning
May: Russia is about to collapse
June: Russia one step from defeat
July: ok Russia won 🤣🤣🤣

[karimmoorad]

"Why run away when you can strategically retreat"

[garysmith]

Russia is the first country to win territory after running out of tanks, missiles and vodka. Ukraine is the first country to win while retreating, sorry I mean evacuating. Still waiting for magic NATO weapons.

[franciskiunga]

Where do all these russian tanks comes from?!😩because the news i watched last month from western media, was saying that US javelins, and British in-laws have finished all russia tanks 😈😁😁😁

[yearsago]

what happened? did the ghost of kiev switch sides 😂😂

[gozallian]

Withdrew? You mean they got surrounded and bombed until they lost nearly everything

[waitwhat]

Withdrew!!! That's a perfect way to put it.

[euy]

no way.
BBC CNN SKYNEWS CBC WION and DW keep telling ppl that Ukraine has been winning for months.

[bobangel]

Dw news told us Russians are running out of weapon ohhh MY GOD . 😁😂🤣😅😎

[ashk]

😂😂I lost it when the reporter said losing lysichansk was a strategic retreat. R u taking us the viewers for fools?

[nancydonna]

Well with all said and done we have been able identity some of the damages and crisis....Ukraine needs to understand certain things and work on safety measures

[tristanrodriguez]

Another successful evacuation! Ukraine stay stacking W's!

[deusexmachina]

Anyone else sees a problem with the correspondents reporting from hundreds of kilometers where the action is?

[hitchhiker]

I woke up from a Coma after 2 months. I thought Ukraine was humiliating Russia with Ghost of Kiev and Pickle Jars. What happened?

[echika]

"Need more weapons". Even if any type of weapons are supplied. Would likely not change the main outcome of the conflict. Problem is probably now operational capability and logistics.

[dhavalpatel]

Active pocket of resistance= Few Ukrainian troops are hiding in some areas

[bequemwaltz]

Macron and Scholz must be happy with the result of their boycotts and false promises made to Ukraine and consecutively in favor of Putin. Provide few weapons and offer support after the defeat was so abject. I guess what matters is to save the economy and the pockets of its citizens.

[yikkeongleong]

Crazy, those are Ukrainian supporting Russian. That is why they not leaving.

[abibumodou]

My advise to NATO is let them send their generals to Russia for training course

[bensoothsayer]

Although Russia has captured about 28% of ukraine.
But who else noticed how western media alway try to make the captured regions look very small in the map, to make it look insignigicant?