The Ukrainian army has “entered” the strategic town of Lyman, Donetsk region
The road along the front line, near Lyman, September 26, 2022. © RFI / Anissa El Jabri
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The Ukrainian army said on Saturday October 1 that it had "
entered
" Lyman, a strategic city in the Donetsk region (East), annexed the day before by Moscow despite the condemnations of Kiev and Westerners.
A few hours earlier, Kiev forces had announced that several thousand Russian soldiers were "
encircled
" there.
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Ukrainian Air Assault Forces are entering Lyman, Donetsk region
," the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on Twitter.
After taking over five villages in the vicinity, the spokesman for the Ukrainian army in the east Serguiï Tcherevatiï had declared on television, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine agency, that "
about
5,000
-
5,500
Russians
" had been entrenched in and around Lyman for the past few days.
For Serguiï Gaïdaï, the governor of the neighboring region of Lugansk, the Russian soldiers present “
in the cauldron
” of Lyman then had “
three options
: to flee, to die all together or to surrender
”.
Friday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the "
significant results"
of the counter-offensive of his troops in the East, pushing the Russians to withdraw from many conquered territories.
On Friday, a senior pro-Russian separatist official, Denis Pushilin, acknowledged that the Russians present in Lyman were fighting there "
at the end of their tether
", facing a "
difficult
" situation.
(more information to come)
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