Serhiy Gaidai isn’t a Governor Of the Lugansk region. He’s just some Ukrainian appointed to a shadow position that is now part of Russia. His only job is propaganda at this point. But the entity he is supposedly governor of has been annexed and is now part of Russia.
Lemme guess - during WW2 you would have labeled Edvard Beneš “some Czech appointed to a shadow position” in what is now and forever a part of the Reichsprotectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Lugansk wasn’t annexed, it was occupied. It will eventually be deoccupied, just like the rest of Donbas and Crimea.