Ukraine makes gains in areas annexed by Russia

AuthorIsrael National News
Published date03 October 2022
Publication titleIsrael National News (Israel)
The setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin came two days after he proclaimed the annexation of four regions covering nearly a fifth of Ukraine, an area that includes Lyman

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the capture of the town, where Ukrainian flags were raised over civic buildings on Saturday, demonstrated that Ukraine is capable of dislodging Russian forces and showed the impact Ukraine's deployment of advanced Western weapons was having on the conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that the success of the country's soldiers was not limited to the recapture of Lyman, claiming Ukrainian forces have liberated the small Arkhanhelske and Myrolyubivka settlements in the Kherson region as well.

Reuters was not able to immediately verify the reports.

Russia's defense ministry said on Saturday that it was pulling troops out of the Lyman area "in connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement".

It did not mention Lyman in its daily update on fighting in Ukraine on Sunday, although it said Russian forces had destroyed seven artillery and missile depots in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Donetsk.

Russian forces had initially captured Lyman from Ukraine in May and had been using it as a...

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