Ukrainian army leaves positions near Luhansk
Ukrainian army units are leaving their positions near east Ukraine ’s
Luhansk, the press office of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic
reported on Tuesday, according to Itar-Tass.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces are leaving their positions they
had held near Krasnodon and have also withdrawn from Alexandrovka (west of
Luhansk) and have started to pull back from the town of Schastye (north of
Luhansk),” the press office said, adding there had been especially fierce
battles between the Ukrainian military and the local self-defense militia near
Schastye and the bridge across the Northern Donets River about a month ago.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ withdrawal from Alexandrovka and
their gradual retreat from Schastye are not connected to self-defense fighters’
actions, the press office said.
“They are withdrawing on their own,” the press office said.
The Ukrainian armed forces conducting a military operation
in the country’s embattled southeast have suspended combat aviation flights in
the area to investigate a recent crash of a military plane, the operation’s
press center said on Tuesday.
“Aviation flights have been suspended until a special order
due to the investigation of Ukrainian Armed Forces' An-26 military transport
plane crash in the Luhansk Region on July 14, 2014,” the press center said on
its Facebook page.
Ukrainian military aircraft involved in the operation have
been at their permanent bases since July 14, the statement said.
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