LUGANSK – A truck driver was killed and seven people were injured in Ukrainian attacks in Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, Russian-appointed regional head Leonid Pasechnik said on Sunday. He also reported rescue work at an apartment building in Lisichansk, but did not clarify whether people reportedly injured there were included in the seven-person total.
Pasechnik’s account described attacks near a public transport stop and on trucks and passenger cars in the Donbas during the Russia-Ukraine war. A 17-year-old boy was among the reported wounded.
The casualty figures and attribution of responsibility could not be independently verified. No Ukrainian response to these specific allegations was available in the material reviewed.
The fatal attack occurred on a bypass road near the Yuzhny district of Lugansk, where a drone struck a truck and killed its driver, Pasechnik said in remarks carried by TASS on Sunday. The dispatch did not identify the driver.
In Pervomaysk, also known as Sokolohirsk, a strike near a public transport stop wounded a man and the 17-year-old boy, according to Pasechnik.
He reported four people wounded in attacks on passenger cars on the Svatovo-Belokurakino and Lugansk-Krasnodon roads. TASS’s account gave a combined injury count for those two locations.
A separate drone attack on a truck near Mikhailovka, in the Perevalsk municipal district, wounded its driver, he said. Together with the two people injured near the transport stop and four in the passenger-car incidents, that accounts for the seven reported injuries.
Eastern Herald reported on Ukrainian drone strikes in Lugansk in July. On November 5, Pasechnik reported seven deaths and 14 injuries in attacks on a bus, a van and a minibus, according to Anadolu Agency’s account that day. Those figures concern separate incidents and are not added to Sunday’s toll.
In Lisichansk, known in Ukrainian as Lysychansk, Pasechnik said Ukrainian forces had struck an apartment building and that rescue work had been organised. He reported preliminary information that people were hurt, but gave no confirmed number or account of their condition.
