“I also ask you to present to the state awards all the servicemen who distinguished themselves in the course of these hostilities,” Putin said at a meeting with Shoigu.
On June 26, it became known that during a special operation in Ukraine, units of the LPR, with the support of Russian troops, completely liberated the cities of Severodonetsk and Borovskoye.
On July 3, Shoigu reported to Putin on the liberation of the Luhansk People's Republic.