Kyiv: 5,000 Russian soldiers are trapped in Lyman, eastern Ukraine

Today, Saturday, the governor of Ukraine's Luhansk region, Serhiy Heyday, said that Ukrainian forces have surrounded about 5,000 Russian soldiers in the strategically important city of Lyman in the east of the country.

"The soldiers trapped in Lyman asked the Russian leadership to allow them to leave the city, but their request was refused," Hayday said.

He continued, “There are three ways for them: either try to break through, surrender, or die.

There are about five thousand, without a specific number.”

Haiday said that there had never been a large number of Russians trapped so far in the war that Moscow started on February 24.

Military experts in the West said they expect Ukrainian forces to liberate Lyman in the coming days, which would become another series of blows to the war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin more than seven months ago.

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