Lyman

The capture of Lyman would be a major setback after President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the annexation of the Donetsk region along with three others at a ...

"Lyman is important because it is the next step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas. Lyman will be Ukraine," one of the soldiers said, standing on the bonnet of a military vehice. Its fall would be Ukraine's biggest battlefield gain since a lightning counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region last month. Putin proclaimed the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to be Russian land in Friday's ceremony - a swathe of territory equal to about 18% of Ukraine's total surface land area. "The Russian grouping in the area of Lyman is surrounded," the spokeperson, Serhii Cherevatyi, said on television. KYIV, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces reached the entrance of the eastern bastion of Lyman on Saturday after encircling thousands of Russian troops, Kyiv said, in a battlefield rebuttal to the Kremlin a day after it proclaimed a swathe of territory to be part of Russia.

Thousands of Russian troops 'encircled', Ukrainian army claims, adding its troops have surrounded key city in Donetsk.

FIVE Russian-controlled settlements around Lyman in the Donetsk region have reportedly been liberated by Ukraine's Armed Forces, as reported on Saturday,

The bodies had all been buried individually he said. “Lyman is important because it is the next step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas. Five settlements around Lyman in the Donetsk region have reportedly been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the spokesman of the Eastern Group of Forces, Serhii Cherevatyi.

The town of Lyman in Donetsk has been encircled, trapping a huge number of invading troops.

[check our news page](https://metro.co.uk/news/). [Find out more »](https://metro.co.uk/news-updates-newsletter/) [huge celebration in Moscow’s Red Square yesterday](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/30/putin-tells-residents-of-annexed-ukraine-regions-welcome-home-17482955/). [‘Putin is overrated’: Why Russia is losing and how future wars will be won](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/27/sir-lawrence-freedman-on-vladimir-putin-china-and-liz-truss-17341548/?ico=more_text_links) [attempted to claim he had successful annexed Donetsk along with Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/30/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-strike-kills-23-ahead-of-vladimir-putin-proclamation-17479220/) this week. [Russia](https://metro.co.uk/tag/russia/?ico=auto_link_news_P3_LNK1) which serves as the main military bastion in the north of the semi-occupied region.

Ukrainian forces have surrounded Russian troops in the area of the crucial rail hub of Lyman, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces has ...

It is a direct threat to the security of female fans in Iran and wherever our national team plays in the world. The first effort was successful and the child was born in the United States and automatically received U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2003-2006 and an analyst at the Atlantic Council, said in a statement. The blasts resulted in four leaks and the venting of methane gas into the sea. [Live Briefing](https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html) gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, Russian protests, and the plight of civilians. Speaking at a news conference in Brussels, Stoltenberg condemned the Russian "land grab" of four Ukrainian provinces in decrees signed by Putin earlier at a Kremlin ceremony. Stoltenberg said it is a decision that requires a consensus of all 30 allies, and the focus should remain on helping Kyiv's war effort. "The residents of these regions do not want to return to Ukraine. response to Iranian drones as a "hostile action" and reserved the right to respond. Security forces reportedly tried to prevent protesters from gathering in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on September 30. "People in Bulgaria and across Europe are feeling the consequences of Russia's war [against Ukraine]," von der Leyen said. Moscow has used Lyman as a logistical hub for operations in the northern part of the Donetsk region.

Ukrainian forces are encircling Russian troops in Russian-occupied Lyman, in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk, despite Moscow's annexation of the region.

All routes for the supply of ammunition or the retreat of the group are all completely blocked,” he added. “[The liberation] of Lyman is important, because it is another step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas. “The Russian group in the area of Lyman is surrounded. There has never been such a large group in the encirclement before. “There are several thousand of them. The settlements of Yampil, Novoselivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve, and Stavky are liberated.

Ukrainian forces reached the entrance of the eastern bastion of Lyman on 1 October after encircling thousands of Russian troops, in a battlefield rebuttal ...

“Lyman is important because it is the next step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas. Its fall would be Ukraine’s biggest battlefield gain since a lightning counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region last month. “1 October: We are unfurling our state flag and establishing it on our land.

The Ukrainian military said its forces had encircled several thousand Russian troops inside the key eastern city, which Moscow has occupied since spring. "The ...

"Lyman is important because it is the next step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas. It is not known what has happened to the soldiers. From Lyman Ukrainian forces will look to make further advances into the adjacent Luhansk province. But it also admitted that Ukraine had gained the upper hand. "By the middle of the day it became obvious that a decision had been made to withdraw troops and withdraw from Lyman," Rybar, a prominent Russian military blogger, wrote on Telegram. He said that Russian military tactics had always considered nuclear weapons to be "war fighting weapons, whereas in the West we see them solely as weapons of escalation and therefore we wouldn’t use them". We're unfurling our state flag and establishing it on our land. "October 1. Tobias Ellwood, the chair of the defence select committee, said that allies including the UK had to "agree our kinetic conventional response to Putin detonating a single tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine". In an address last week, Putin said he was not "bluffing" when he said Russia had "various weapons of destruction" at its disposal and would use "all the means available". [withdrawn from the key eastern city of Lyman](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/30/cauldron-war-lyman-puts-vladimir-putins-annexation-thin-ice/) on Saturday in the face of "significant superiority in forces and means", handing Kyiv a major battlefield victory. [the Chechen leader and key Kremlin ally](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/05/26/chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-puts-crosshairs-poland-threatening/), called on Vladimir Putin to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine in the wake of another major and embarrassing military defeat.

Luhansk governor says Russian troops trapped in Lyman asked commanders if they could retreat but request was turned down.

Ukraine has encircled Russia’s forces around a bastion that is critical for Moscow at the eastern town of Lyman, in an operation that is still under way. The World Bank has said it will provide an additional US$530m in support to Ukraine, bringing the total aid by the bank to $13bn. The Ukrainian director-general of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been detained by a Russian patrol, according to Energoatom. Of course, it has been very important for me to underline that the Danish authorities have said that this this is not an accident. Russia vetoed a UN security council resolution introduced by the US and Albania condemning Moscow’s proclaimed annexations. We talked most of all about the situation in Ukraine and the so-called referendums in Ukraine. Let’s begin with some of the most recent developments. This decision, which constitutes a grave violation of the established principles of international law, cannot be accepted. Lyman is important because it is the next step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas. He promised that the application would happen in an “expedited manner”. Reuters was unable to independently confirm that Kesaev still has direct ownership in the MySky. Treasury did not respond to requests for comment, Reuters reports.

Russia has withdrawn its troops from an eastern Ukraine town to avoid being surrounded by the Ukrainian army.

It did not provide evidence, and the claim could not be independently verified. "In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, allied troops were withdrawn from the settlement of Krasny Liman to more advantageous lines," the defence ministry said, using the Russian name of the town. [Russia](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/russians-push-baseless-theory-blaming-us-burst-pipeline) said on Saturday its troops had withdrawn from the town of Lyman in eastern [Ukraine](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/putin-signs-accord-annex-four-occupied-ukrainian-regions) to avoid being surrounded by Ukraine's army.

Troops raise Ukrainian flag in city hours after Putin said area was Russia's 'for ever', with Moscow admitting its forces have retreated.

In Friday’s rambling and grudge-filled speech Putin denounced the west and portrayed his invasion of Ukraine as a just and necessary response to an attempt by the US and its allies to “colonise” Russia. Ukrainian battalions can push north towards the town of Svatove or east to Kreminna, Haidai, the Luhansk governor, said. The sudden collapse of Russia’s forces in Lyman opens up the possibility of further Ukrainian gains. He and about 7,000 other Ukrainian staff at the plant are employed by Energoatom, Ukraine’s nuclear organisation, based in Kyiv. The Kremlin controls almost all of Luhansk and Kherson provinces, but only parts of the other two regions. The Kremlin has not commented on its stunning military rout in Lyman. The governor of Luhansk province, Serhiy Haidai, said the besieged troops had begged on Friday to be allowed to leave Lyman. The debacle came hours after Putin announced on Friday that the city, which is a part of the Donetsk region, was Russia’s “for ever”. “A colossal grouping” of up to 5,000 enemy soldiers was facing defeat, he added. The attack appears to have happened several days ago. They had been “withdrawn to more advantageous lines”, the ministry said, after their encirclement by Ukrainian forces. Earlier on Saturday Ukraine’s armed forces said they had entirely surrounded the city, trapping thousands of Russian soldiers inside.

The Ukraine military said in a tweet on Saturday that its air assault forces “are entering Lyman”. “The Ukrainian army has and will always have the decisive ...

The retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in Lyman, and is seen as a significant blow.

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