{"id":19701,"date":"2026-04-01T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19701"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:29:57","slug":"russia-claims-full-control-of-eastern-ukraines-luhansk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/01\/russia-claims-full-control-of-eastern-ukraines-luhansk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia claims full control of Eastern Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry has again claimed that its forces have taken full control of the self-proclaimed Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine.<br>According to the Moscow Times, the ministry said on Wednesday that all areas of Luhansk are now under Russian control, describing the move as a \u201cliberation.\u201d<br>Following the announcement, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should consider withdrawing forces from neighboring Donetsk, another key industrial area in the Donbas region.<br>\u201cThis could save many lives and, most importantly, bring an end to the active phase of the war,\u201d Peskov told reporters.<br>Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on the claim.<br>Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, this marks at least the third time Moscow has claimed full control over Luhansk, with similar assertions made in mid-2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry has again claimed that its forces have taken full control of the self-proclaimed Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine.According to the Moscow Times, the ministry said on Wednesday that all areas of Luhansk are now under Russian control, describing the move as a \u201cliberation.\u201dFollowing the announcement, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19703,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions\/19703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}