OREANDA-NEWS   Powerful explosions were heard in Luhansk.

According to the news agency, one powerful explosion occurred in the southern part of the city, several more sounded in the central part.

"There was the first explosion, then about five thundered within a minute. The most powerful one was at about 22:07, all the windows in my apartment were shaking," Yulia, a Luhansk resident, told the agency.

Earlier, as a result of the explosion of an improvised explosive device in the center of Lugansk, the Prosecutor General of the LNR Sergey Gorenko and his deputy Ekaterina Steglenko were killed.

Currently, a special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues in Ukraine. Its beginning was announced on February 24 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to him, the purpose of the military actions is to demilitarize the neighboring country and denazify its authorities.

The decision to conduct the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.