Luhansk People's Republic
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The Luhansk People’s Republic, or Lugansk People’s Republic (Russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная... View more
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The Luhansk People’s Republic, or Lugansk People’s Republic (Russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика, romanized: Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika, IPA: [lʊˈɡanskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə]; abbreviated as LPR or LNR), is a breakaway state located in Ukraine, formed by pro-Russian separatists in April 2014, which claims the entirety of Luhansk Oblast within the historical Donbas region. Luhansk is the territory’s largest city and serves as its capital. The population of the republic is approximately 2.1 million people.
The LPR declared independence from Ukraine in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, along with the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Republic of Crimea. This resulted in the Donbas War, and both the LPR and DPR were designated as terrorist organisations by Ukraine in May 2014.The LPR and DPR receive humanitarian assistance from Russia. According to NATO and Ukraine, Russia had also provided military aid to the rebels before the 2022 Russian invasion, a claim that Russia previously denied.
Ukraine’s legislation describes the territory controlled by the LPR as part of the “temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine”, and the government of LPR is described as an occupying administration of the Russian Federation. The September 2014 Minsk Agreement signed by representatives of the OSCE, Ukraine, and Russia—and by the heads of the LPR and DPR without recognising any status for them —was meant to stop the conflict and reintegrate rebel-held territory into Ukraine in exchange for more autonomy for the area, but the agreement was never fully implemented. On 21 February 2022, Russia became the first UN member state to formally recognise the LPR and DPR. Both republics are central to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The current head of state is Leonid Pasechnik, who has said that the LPR may hold a referendum to join Russia in the near future.
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