Moscow-appointed officials say five dead in Ukrainian attack on Russian-held Luhansk region

A Ukrainian attack on municipal workers in Russian-held Luhansk region killed five people on Tuesday, Russia-appointed officials in the region said. Leonid Pasechnik, the Russia-appointed head of the region, wrote on Telegram that four workers trying to maintain water supplies in the city of Svatove had been killed in the strike.

The head of the region's health service, quoted by Russia's state-run TASS news agency, later said a worker wounded in the strike had died in hospital. Luhansk is one of four Ukrainian regions that Russia annexed in 2022 -- along with Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia -- seven months after launching its full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbour.

Moscow said in June it had secured control over the entirety of Luhansk region. It holds parts of the other three.

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