Defense Minister Shoigu announced that the Russian army and the separatist control completely controlled the city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine.

General Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Defense, reported to the Commander of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Vladimir Putin on the liberation of the People's Republic of Lugansk (LPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said in the 3rd statement on the 3rd statement

Successful military campaigns, Russian armed forces and LPR's militia units completely controlled Lysychansk and nearby settlements, the statement had a paragraph.

The Russian Ministry of Defense previously announced the central army led by Colonel Aleksandr Lapin to control a number of settlements and then advance to the Seversky Donets River, coordinated with the southern army led by General Sergey Surovikin.

The Ukrainian army was completely isolated in this area.

The T-80 tank of the People's Army of Lugansk (LPR) claimed to be outside the city of Lysychansk on July 2.

Ukraine has not commented on the information of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Lysychansk was the last major Ukraine control in the eastern province of Lugansk after withdrawing from the city of Severodonetsk across the Seversky Donets.

Western experts said that the Russian military is significantly improving the logistics and command capacity, while promoting the electronic warfare system to neutralize most of the drones by unmanned aircraft attacks (

The US -based War Research Institute (ISW) said that if the campaign's scale expanded, Russia could reach the East bank of Dnipro River and basically divided Ukraine into two parts.

The Ukrainian battlefield situation after more than 4 months of fighting.