"The enemy carried out 12 mortar attacks in Luhansk region. They also fired automatic grenade launchers. Six drones intended to hit the positions of the Ukrainian Defenders. The enemy stormed near Novoyehorivka. In total, the Russian invaders tried to advance in the Lyman and Slovian directions 13 times in the past day. They attacked in the direction of six settlements. Our soldiers are courageously holding back the invaders," emphasized Oleksiy Kharchenko, head of the Luhansk regional military administration.

Entrepreneurs of certain types of economic activity in the so-called "LPR" have been forced by the Russians to pay a tourist tax since January 1. This applies to 13 cities and districts of Luhansk region, captured both in 2014 and in 2022. The occupiers see the development of tourism potential there, capable of filling budgets. This year, the tax rate will be 2%. But it will gradually increase to 5% in 2029.

Medicine in Siverskodonetsk is in decline. Instead of taking measures at the state level to eliminate the catastrophic shortage of personnel, the Russians are resorting to spot solutions, such as short-term missions of doctors from the Russian Federation. This is the fourteenth time they have sent medical workers from Perm to Siverskodonetsk. According to the invaders, eight people can cover the entire city in a few days.