the occupied region was one of the fundamental tasks of the dictator, but rather reminded me of tsar pirafter the battle said one more such victory and i will be left without an army, the loss of the russians in this war is already almost 40 thousand soldiers and thousands of units of destroyed equipment, besides, the bloody battle for luhansk region had an exclusively political purpose and it did not bring tangible strategic advantages to the enemy the main reason why the russians carried out military operations in the luhansk and donetsk regions is not because there were any very important strategic objects there, it is because logistically it was so much easier according to the british ministry of defense russia achieved effective interaction between the two groups of troops, the central one, which is probably under the command of colonel-general oleksandr lapin , and the southern one, which is attributed to the command of the recently appointed syrian butcher , general serhii surovikin, the participation of two such high-ranking officers in the same area obviously speaks of the impor