Battle of Lysychansk
| Battle of Lysychansk | |||||||||
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| Part of the eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine | |||||||||
Pro-Russian separatist troops advance towards Lysychansk | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Russia Luhansk PR | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Aleksandr Lapin Sergey Surovikin | Ivan Marchuk † | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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90th Guards Tank Division | 24th Mechanized Brigade | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown |
Russian claim: 4,500 troops | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown |
Russian claim: 1,120+ killed 600+ captured | ||||||||
| 8+ civilians killed, 42+ wounded | |||||||||
The battle of Lysychansk was a military engagement between Russia and Ukraine in the wider battle of Donbas of the eastern Ukraine campaign during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. By May 2022, Lysychansk and its twin city of Sievierodonetsk were the two largest cities of the Luhansk Oblast not under Russian control. Russian forces launched an assault on Sievierodonetsk in May where a fierce battle occurred until late June, when Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city. Fighting then continued as Russian forces started to attack Lysychansk across the Donets River.
Russia and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) announced their forces had seized Lysychansk on 2–3 July, although Ukraine initially denied the city's capture. The Ukrainian general staff conceded on 3 July that their forces had withdrawn from the city "in order to save the lives of Ukrainian defenders."
Lysychansk was the last Ukrainian stronghold to be captured in Luhansk Oblast, which Russia then claimed to fully control.