About the situation in Luhansk region as of the morning of 09/17/2026

The occupiers are forcing students of a pedagogical college in Luhansk region to sew winter clothes for the Russian military, not only for miners - in the "LPR" they are withholding salaries for metallurgists, the enemy attacked near Novoyehorivka

While shelling Ukrainian military fortifications and settlements in Luhansk region, the enemy fired multiple rocket launchers yesterday. It also fired three artillery shells. It also used FPV drones three more times.

The Russians attacked in the Novoyehorivka area. In total, the enemy carried out six assaults in the Lyman direction.

The occupiers are forcing students of the multi-disciplinary college of the so-called Luhansk State Pedagogical University to sew thermal underwear for the needs of the Russian army. They assure that it will be unprofessional thermal underwear, "but it's better this way than without it at all," hinting at supply problems. The material was purchased at the university's expense. The students are unpaid labor. Education will have to wait.

Russian steel mill owners complain that they are facing "unprecedented economic challenges." Due to unstable electricity supply, enterprises located in the so-called "LPR" are unable to carry out production activities. This immediately became a reason to "freeze" the payment of salaries to metallurgists from Kadiivka and Alchevsk.