Leonid Pasechnik, who has recently been appointed by the so-called "People's Council" of the self-proclaimed "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") as acting head from November 25, says his "republic" will abide by the Minsk agreements and will not block swaps of prisoners of war (POW) with Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda.
Igor Plotnitsky, the self-styled leader of the Russian puppet "Luhansk People’s Republic" has resigned citing health reasons, as reported by one of the pro-militant information resources.
A motorcade with self-proclaimed leader of the terrorist group "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") Igor Plotnitsky, head of his "administration" Irina Teizman, head of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of the "LPR" Anastasia Shurkaeva and some other individuals have left the occupied city of Luhansk reportedly heading for Russia, according to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Militants of the so-called "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") in Ukraine's east have withdrawn the cordons in several districts in the center of the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk, but simultaneously stepped up security outside the building of the so-called "White House," the former Luhansk Regional State Administration, where leader of local terrorists Igor Plotnitsky has barricaded himself, according to the news portal LIGA.net.
A video has been uploaded on social networks showing one of the militant commanders in the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” appealing to the self-proclaimed “leader” of the neighboring “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) terrorist organization, Alexander Zakharchenko, to "revive ‘Novorossiya’."
Social media users report that 200 armed militants have stormed the building of the so-called "Prosecutor General's Office" ("PGO") in the center of the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk, according to the Drugoi Lugansk local news portal.
Self-proclaimed leader of the terrorist group "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") Igor Plotnitsky did not leave the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk and held a "government" meeting on Wednesday morning, November 22, according to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Spokesman for Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, Artem Shevchenko, reported that the self-proclaimed leader of the terrorist group “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LPR), Igor Plotnitsky, fled from the occupied Luhansk to Russia.