Today, Monday, as the Russian military campaign in Ukraine continues, Russian army units are expanding their total authority over the liberated areas and attacking Ukrainian forces’ positions, while Kyiv is attempting to retake some areas with assistance from the West.
Lyman, a key logistical location in the east of the country, was declared fully in Ukrainian control Wednesday, marking Kiev’s biggest military triumph in recent weeks.
This development may serve as a springboard for additional eastward progress while putting more pressure on the Kremlin.
It was announced that starting in the following year, Germany, Denmark, and Norway will provide Ukraine with 16 “howitzer” artillery systems. According to Berlin, the artillery systems will be made in Slovakia and delivered to the Ukraine in the first few months of 2019. This follows the German Defense Minister’s first trip to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion last February.
Just one day after declaring the acquisition of four districts totaling about a fifth of Ukraine, including Donetsk, the location of Lyman, Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered his most recent setback. The action was denounced as illegal farce by Kiev and the West.
In his statement on Sunday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that Lyman’s recovery was just one aspect of the soldiers’ triumph.
The two small settlements of Arkhanhelsky and Mirolubivka in the Kherson region were also freed by Ukrainian forces, he continued.
In response to a threat related to its blockade, the Russian Defense Ministry announced yesterday that it will evacuate its troops from the Lyman region.
The Russian advance was halted in several regions, most notably in the Donetsk region near Bakhmut and Spirn, within the Donetsk region near Lyschansk, a significant centre in the adjoining Lugansk region, according to the Ukrainian military’s evening statement.
Russian forces utilised Lyman as a supply and transportation hub for their operations in the northern Donetsk region, and it fell to them in May.
Since Ukraine’s lightning-fast counterattack in the northeastern province of Kharkiv last month, this loss marked Russia’s greatest defeat on the battlefield.
According to the British Ministry of Defense, Lyman is crucial to operations because it has control over a significant route that crosses the Seversky Donets River, where Russia is attempting to fortify its defences.
Russia undoubtedly sustained significant losses during the pullout, the ministry stated.
According to a military spokesman for Ukraine, between 5,000 and 5,500 Russian soldiers were present in the city prior to the Ukrainian onslaught.
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