Miners in the Lugansk region. Archive photoLUGANSK, Aug. 9 Kyiv flooded almost all the mines in the territories of the Luhansk People's Republic previously controlled by it, LPR head Leonid Pasechnik said at a meeting with foreign journalists. «In the liberated territories, those mines that operated ( until 2014 — ed.) — «Zolotoe», «Gorskoe» — such associations, which included mines, they are almost all flooded. Moreover, they are already flooded above the point of no return. Even if we start pumping water now, we will start these mines there will be no practical possibility,» Pasechnik explained. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the liberation of the Luhansk People's Republic. As a result of successful military operations, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, together with units of the People's Militia of the LPR, established full control over Lisichansk — the last city in the republic in which there were Ukrainian troops — and a number of nearby settlements, the largest of which are Belogorovka, Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantsevo and Belaya Gora.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/8912d41e90852176cfe203c03cfc5c20.jpg" />Ukrainian troops threw mines at the industrial site of the Skochinsky mine
