People don't have heating in large occupied cities in Luhansk region - Serhii Haidai

“Fierce battles are ongoing in two directions - Svatove-Kreminna and Bilohorivka. In the first direction, Ukraine's Armed Forces are driving the Russian enemy away little by little. And in the Bilohorivka direction, the Russian forces are constantly attacking, trying to recapture the territory of the village, which has been completely destroyed,” the message says.

According to him, the situation is critical in large occupied cities.

“Local residents are freezing, so people heat apartments in high-rise buildings with firewood. The occupiers take apartments from people to house "their" soldiers, but they tell people that Ukraine will soon return and rebuild everything. The Russians are already depressed and understand that they will soon have to flee,” he wrote.

• Roman Vlasenko, the head of the Severodonetsk District Military Administration, says that fighting is ongoing on the entire front in the Luhansk region, but the hottest areas are Bilohorivka, Kreminna and Svatove.