Luhansk

American  

[loo-hansk, loo-hahnsk] / luˈhænsk, luˈhɑnsk /

1. a city in eastern Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.

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Example Sentences

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Diop says he was deployed to Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, where he spent days in a bunker with several Russians and two Brazilians, before walking at night to the front line.

From The Wall Street Journal

It enabled one of the most spectacular tactical setbacks for Russia—the destruction of a large Russian armored force as it attempted to cross the Siverskyi Donets river in the Luhansk region in May 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal

Halinichev died in 2023 in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine.

From BBC

He was killed at the age of 23 in the Luhansk region in 2023.

From BBC

Note: The Donetsk and Luhansk regions are known together as Donbas.

From The Wall Street Journal