The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian Armed Forces completed the seizure of the territory of the self-proclaimed LPR. Interfax quoted the Defense Ministry’s statement.
“Units of the Western Group of Forces completed the liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic,” the message read.
In October 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian forces still controlled 0.13% of the LPR’s territory.
Comment from the “Analysis” section.
According to available open data, the 3rd Army Corps “Azov” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to control a small area between the destroyed villages of Nadia and Novoihorivka in the Lugansk region. The Russian army has not launched an attack on the region in recent months.
In June 2025, the self-proclaimed head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik malethat “literally two days ago a report came that the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic was completely 100% liberated.”