{"id":1377009,"date":"2026-04-02T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-controls-part-of-luhansk-region-defense-forces-refute-fake-news-about-capture\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:06:04","slug":"ukraine-controls-part-of-luhansk-region-defense-forces-refute-fake-news-about-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-controls-part-of-luhansk-region-defense-forces-refute-fake-news-about-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine controls part of Luhansk region: Defense Forces refute fake news about capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ukrainian Defense Forces denied Russian information about the complete capture of the Luhansk region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/aTGNV1BAztU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was stated<\/span><\/a> on the air of &#8220;We are Ukraine&#8221; by <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the spokesman for the Joint Forces Group, Viktor Tregubov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The day before, on April 1, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the occupation of the entire territory of Luhansk Oblast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of April 2, the corresponding post on the official Telegram channel of the Russian Defense Ministry has disappeared, and propaganda resources are citing the ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Tregubov noted, Ukrainian forces have been holding positions in Luhansk region for several years. He added that the \u201csmall piece\u201d controlled by Ukraine is not shrinking, as there are well-fortified positions there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJudging by everything, it was April 1 for the Russian Defense Ministry too. The situation is as follows: the Russians control most of Luhansk Oblast, it\u2019s no secret. But, of course, the Ukrainians have been holding a small piece for years,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, there are currently no significant changes or movements in the Luhansk region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhy the Russians decided to announce something right now, I don\u2019t know. This is again some classic drug addiction from the Russian Ministry of Defense,\u201d Tregubov said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He compared the statements about the occupation of the Luhansk region with the statements about the numerous captures of Kupyansk or the number of destroyed Ukrainian equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-02_12-05-06.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: DeepState\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Photo: DeepState<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p> Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-rf-zaiavyly-pro-zakhoplennia-kivsharivky-na-kharkivshchyni-zsu-zaperechyly-informatsiiu\/\">the Russian Defense Ministry announced the capture of another settlement<\/a> , Kivsharivka in the Kharkiv region. However, according to information from the 43rd OMB, this turned out to be another fake.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zsu-sprostuvaly-prosuvannia-rf-na-kharkivshchyni-pozytsii-utrymuiutsia\/\">the Joint Forces Group denied information about the alleged advance of Russian troops<\/a> in the Kharkiv region. The Ukrainian military continues to hold their positions.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian Defense Forces denied Russian information about the complete capture of the Luhansk region. This was stated on the air of &#8220;We are Ukraine&#8221; by the spokesman for the Joint Forces Group, Viktor Tregubov. The day before, on April 1, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the occupation of the entire territory of Luhansk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1336262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875,77305],"class_list":["post-1377009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-stopfake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1336262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}