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Fighting is on in the Luhansk region, according to Ukrainian presidential candidate Sergiy Tigipko's campaign staff.

“We have received a confirmation in contacts with the campaign staff
chief in Luhansk Oleksandr Tkachenko, that shots can be heard outside
the town of Chuhynka. No one will leave his home to vote, of course. The
fighting has been on since the night,” chief of Tigipko campaign staff
Svitlana Fabrykant said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Sunday.

But she said that according to the Defense Ministry, no fighting has
been observed in the zone of counterterrorism operation since “silence”
set in yesterday.