{"id":1384690,"date":"2026-04-21T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-ukrainian-armed-forces-denied-russias-claim-of-a-complete-occupation-of-luhansk-oblast\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:03:26","slug":"the-ukrainian-armed-forces-denied-russias-claim-of-a-complete-occupation-of-luhansk-oblast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-ukrainian-armed-forces-denied-russias-claim-of-a-complete-occupation-of-luhansk-oblast\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFully Captured\u201d? Armed Forces of Ukraine Say Russia\u2019s Claim Doesn\u2019t Match Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"279\"><strong>Third Army Corps spokesman <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Alexander Borodin<\/span><\/span> denied the statement by Russian Chief of the General Staff <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Valery Gerasimov<\/span><\/span> about the alleged complete occupation <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">of the Luhansk region<\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/interfax.com.ua\/news\/general\/1160944.html?utm_source=telegram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told<\/a> Interfax-Ukraine about this.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"398\">According to him, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to control the settlements of Nadezhda, Novoegorovka, and the Grekovka area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"604\">Borodin noted that Russian troops are actively attacking in this direction\u2014over the past six months, there have been more than 150 assaults involving significant forces. However, despite the pressure, the front line remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"835\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He also emphasized that this direction remains strategic for Russian troops, as it is linked to the advance toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, but that claims of complete control over the Luhansk region are not true.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"835\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Also, follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamyi&#8221;<\/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>Third Army Corps spokesman Alexander Borodin denied the statement by Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov about the alleged complete occupation of the Luhansk region. He told Interfax-Ukraine about this. According to him, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to control the settlements of Nadezhda, Novoegorovka, and the Grekovka area. &nbsp; Borodin noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1338257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1384690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384690","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384983,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384690\/revisions\/1384983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}