• Source: 2024 Lysychansk missile strike

On 3 February 2024, a Ukrainian missile struck a cafe in the Russian occupied city of Lysychansk as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian sources claimed 28 civilians, including three high-ranking collaborators, were killed in the cafe, while Ukraine has not yet commented on the attack.




Attack






= Background

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Lysychansk was the site of a pitched battle in June 2022 which, after over a week, saw the city captured by elements of the Russian Armed Forces and the Luhansk people's militia, and a collaborationist government was established and placed under the control of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), a separatist puppet state that claims control over all of Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast.




= Strike

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Russian state media had difficulty identifying the store which was targeted, first calling it a bakery, and then a restaurant, before the location was identified as the Adriatica café by milblogers. Eduard Sakhnenko, the Russian-installed mayor of Lysychansk reported that the attack was a missile strike and that there where at least 28 civilian casualties, three of which were local politicians including a member of the LPR's executive branch.




= Victims

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The missile strike targeted the Adriatica café during the birthday celebrations of Ivan Zhushma, a local collaborator and a member of the legislature of the LPR. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti stated that the attack killed several high-ranking LPR officials including:

Alexey Poteleschenko - Luhansk People's Republic's Emergency Situations Minister
Artem Trostyansky - Member of the People's Council of the Luhansk People's Republic
Ivan Zhushma - Member of the People's Council of the Luhansk People's Republic




See also


Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 December 2023 - present)




References

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• Invasi Ukraina oleh Rusia
• 2024 Lysychansk missile strike
• February 2024 Belgorod missile strike
• 2024 Pokrovsk missile strike
• Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 August 2024 – present)
• Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure (2022–present)
• May 2024 Belgorod missile strike
• Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 December 2023 – 31 March 2024)
• 25 May 2024 Kharkiv missile strikes
• Battle of Lysychansk
• Kharkiv strikes (2022–present)