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What happened in Donbas on 19 September 2022?
Summary
A look back at reported blasts in Donetsk, a village retaken in Luhansk Oblast and civilian deaths claimed by occupation authorities.
What did the front in Donbas look like on 19 September 2022? Reports from that day pointed to a Ukrainian advance in Luhansk Oblast alongside deadly incidents in territory held by Russian-backed authorities.
Ukrainian Ground Forces recaptured the village of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast, as they advanced on Lysychansk.
Claims from Russian-held areas
In Donetsk, a city held by the Donetsk People's Republic, explosions killed 13 people and injured many others. The DPR leader, Denis Pushilin, accused Ukraine of being behind the attacks.
Separately, authorities of the Luhansk People's Republic said a Ukrainian shelling attack had killed seven civilians, including three children, in the town of Krasnorichenske.
The preceding day
The day before, on 18 September 2022, Russian forces shelled a psychiatric hospital in Strelechya, in Kharkiv Oblast. Four medics were killed and two patients injured.
On the same date, Ukraine withdrew its 250 troops from the United Nations peacekeeping force MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Ukrainian Air Force aviation unit also pulled out its eight helicopters, which made up a third of the UN's fleet in the mission.
