Russian forces replaced local mobilized workers with Russian citizens at the Alchevsk metallurgical plant and Dovzhanska-Kapitalna mine in Luhansk Oblast. Local men were forcibly mobilized for combat while Russian shift workers took their places in the workforce.
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Russian forces carried out a military draft in occupied Luhansk Oblast, replacing men taken from enterprises with Russian workers or women.
More than 400 men were forcibly mobilized from the Dovzhanska-Kapitalna mine, and forced mobilization affected exempted individuals at the Alchevsk metallurgical plant.
Ukrainian forces made small advances and gained a foothold in Luhansk Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces advanced in Luhansk according to Serhiy Gaidai.
Ukrainian defenders advanced several hundred meters into the Luhansk region and have entrenched positions there.
Russian attacks against these advances were repulsed.
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