Luhansk Oblast

Ukraine

Luhansk Oblast shares 61 connections with 2232 other places across 12 topics, with military and government threads making up the bulk of its ties. The oblast sits at the center of the 2022 Eastern Ukraine offensive, where Russian forces captured Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk in some of the conflict's most intense fighting. Its connections reach Russia, Donetsk Oblast, and Kyiv. The town of Starobilsk held a Polish prisoner-of-war camp whose inmates were killed in the 1940 Katyn massacre.