Russia says it has withdrawn its forces from Lyman, a key city in one of the Ukrainian regions that Moscow yesterday claimed as its own
The loss of Lyman, an important hub for Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, would be another blow to Moscow’s war effort
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, whose director has been kidnapped by Russian forces, according to Ukraine’s nuclear-power company.DNIPRO, Ukraine—Russian forces were withdrawing from the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman on Saturday, another dramatic setback following a month in which they lost roughly 4,000 square miles of territory.
The Russian Ministry of Defense wrote on the Telegram messaging platform that troops had been pulled out of Lyman “in connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement” by Ukrainian forces, which have pushed east of the Oskil River this week into the Donetsk region.
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