Kyiv: Ukraine claimed full control of Eastern Logistics Center on Sunday lymanKyiv was given the most significant battlefield advantage in weeks, providing a potential staging post for further attacks to the east, putting further pressure on the Kremlin.
A blow to the Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday came after the announcement of the annexation of four regions covering nearly a fifth of Ukraine, an area that includes Lyman. Kyiv and the West have condemned the proclamation as an illegitimate farce.
“By 1230 (0930 GMT), Lyman is completely cleared,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a short video clip on his Telegram channel. “Thank you to our soldiers… Glory to Ukraine!”
Russia’s defense ministry said on Saturday it was pulling troops from the area “in connection with the building up of the siege threat”.
He did not mention the city in his daily update on fighting in Ukraine on Sunday, although he did say that Russian forces had destroyed seven artillery and missile depots in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, zapsoriziaMykolaiv and Donetsk.
Russian forces captured Lyman off Ukraine in May and used it as a logistics and transportation center for their operations north of the Donetsk region. have to lose it RussiaThe largest battlefield loss since Ukraine’s lightning retaliatory strike in the northeastern Kharkiv region last month.
Serhi Gaidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, said that neighboring Donetsk said control of Lyman could prove to be a “critical factor” in helping Ukraine reclaim lost territory on its territory, whose full occupation by Moscow had been grinding to a halt. After weeks of advances was announced in early July.
Britain’s Defense Ministry described Lyman as operationally important because it ordered the crossing of an important road on the Siversky Donets River behind which Russia is attempting to bolster its defence.
The ministry said in a statement that Russians were expected to suffer heavy casualties during the withdrawal. A spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern forces said on Saturday that Russia had between 5,000 and 5,500 troops in the city before Ukraine’s attack.
the areas putin As claimed – the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and Kherson and Zaporizhzhya to the south – form a agglomeration of an area equal to about 18% of Ukraine’s total surface land area.
“Over the past week, the number of Ukrainian flags in the Donbass has increased. A week’s time will be even more,” Zelensky said in an evening address on Saturday.
Russian anger
The failures on the battlefield have triggered a new wave of criticism within Russia over how its military operation is being handled. Britain’s Defense Ministry said it was likely to intensify with further tremors.
Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of Putin, leader of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, called for a change in strategy on Saturday “up to the declaration of martial law in border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.”
Other top officials, including former President Dmitry Medvedev, have suggested that Russia may need to resort to nuclear weapons, but Kadyrov’s call was the most urgent and clear. Washington says it will respond decisively to any use of nuclear weapons.
The United States, whose military aid is widely regarded as critical to the success of the retaliation, lauded the latest Ukrainian gains.
“We’re very excited by what we’re seeing right now,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a news conference on Saturday.
Austin noted that Lyman was stationed in supply lines that Russia used to push down its troops and material to the south and west, as the Kremlin presses a more than seven-month-long invasion of Ukraine.
“Without those routes, it would be more difficult. So it presents a kind of dilemma for the Russians going forward.”
Pope Francis made a passionate appeal to Putin on Sunday to stop “this spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying the crisis there was a risk of nuclear escalation with uncontrollable global consequences.
Addressing thousands in St Peter’s Square, Francis also asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to be open to any “serious peace proposal”.
Zelensky said on Friday that Ukraine would not hold peace talks with Russia while Putin is president.
Zelensky said, “Frankly, it is impossible with this Russian president (he). He does not know what dignity and honesty are. Therefore, we are ready for talks with Russia, but with another Russian president. ”
A blow to the Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday came after the announcement of the annexation of four regions covering nearly a fifth of Ukraine, an area that includes Lyman. Kyiv and the West have condemned the proclamation as an illegitimate farce.
“By 1230 (0930 GMT), Lyman is completely cleared,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a short video clip on his Telegram channel. “Thank you to our soldiers… Glory to Ukraine!”
Russia’s defense ministry said on Saturday it was pulling troops from the area “in connection with the building up of the siege threat”.
He did not mention the city in his daily update on fighting in Ukraine on Sunday, although he did say that Russian forces had destroyed seven artillery and missile depots in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, zapsoriziaMykolaiv and Donetsk.
Russian forces captured Lyman off Ukraine in May and used it as a logistics and transportation center for their operations north of the Donetsk region. have to lose it RussiaThe largest battlefield loss since Ukraine’s lightning retaliatory strike in the northeastern Kharkiv region last month.
Serhi Gaidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, said that neighboring Donetsk said control of Lyman could prove to be a “critical factor” in helping Ukraine reclaim lost territory on its territory, whose full occupation by Moscow had been grinding to a halt. After weeks of advances was announced in early July.
Britain’s Defense Ministry described Lyman as operationally important because it ordered the crossing of an important road on the Siversky Donets River behind which Russia is attempting to bolster its defence.
The ministry said in a statement that Russians were expected to suffer heavy casualties during the withdrawal. A spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern forces said on Saturday that Russia had between 5,000 and 5,500 troops in the city before Ukraine’s attack.
the areas putin As claimed – the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and Kherson and Zaporizhzhya to the south – form a agglomeration of an area equal to about 18% of Ukraine’s total surface land area.
“Over the past week, the number of Ukrainian flags in the Donbass has increased. A week’s time will be even more,” Zelensky said in an evening address on Saturday.
Russian anger
The failures on the battlefield have triggered a new wave of criticism within Russia over how its military operation is being handled. Britain’s Defense Ministry said it was likely to intensify with further tremors.
Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of Putin, leader of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, called for a change in strategy on Saturday “up to the declaration of martial law in border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.”
Other top officials, including former President Dmitry Medvedev, have suggested that Russia may need to resort to nuclear weapons, but Kadyrov’s call was the most urgent and clear. Washington says it will respond decisively to any use of nuclear weapons.
The United States, whose military aid is widely regarded as critical to the success of the retaliation, lauded the latest Ukrainian gains.
“We’re very excited by what we’re seeing right now,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a news conference on Saturday.
Austin noted that Lyman was stationed in supply lines that Russia used to push down its troops and material to the south and west, as the Kremlin presses a more than seven-month-long invasion of Ukraine.
“Without those routes, it would be more difficult. So it presents a kind of dilemma for the Russians going forward.”
Pope Francis made a passionate appeal to Putin on Sunday to stop “this spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying the crisis there was a risk of nuclear escalation with uncontrollable global consequences.
Addressing thousands in St Peter’s Square, Francis also asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to be open to any “serious peace proposal”.
Zelensky said on Friday that Ukraine would not hold peace talks with Russia while Putin is president.
Zelensky said, “Frankly, it is impossible with this Russian president (he). He does not know what dignity and honesty are. Therefore, we are ready for talks with Russia, but with another Russian president. ”