Posted on 10/01/2022 8:07:14 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Vladimir Putin faced severe embarrassment when Ukrainian soldiers liberated the key eastern city of Lyman, raising the blue and yellow national flag above its entrance sign, hours after Russia’s president announced that the area was Moscow’s “for ever”.
Ukraine’s armed forces said they had entirely surrounded the city, trapping thousands of Russian soldiers inside. The governor of Luhansk province, Serhiy Haidai, said the besieged troops had begged on Friday to be allowed to leave Lyman. Their commanders refused, he claimed.
With no way out, the Russians could either surrender, try to escape or die together, Haidai said.
An attempt by the Russian army to relieve the city was under way, but it was unlikely it would succeed, he said. “A colossal grouping” of up to 5,000 enemy soldiers was facing defeat, he added.
Russian military bloggers reported that Ukrainian servicemen had entered the centre of the city, and were handing out food to residents. Shelling and small arms fire had apparently stopped.
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Those ‘sham’ elections were about as ‘sham’ as the US and NATO ‘sham’ elections that split Serbia and created Kosovo via force of arms, yes?
“And have a rock concert afterward!”
With bussed in astroturf for attendees...
This is going to be a very bad Winter for Russia.
...Unless Putin dies.
No, Russian supplies do not.
You knuckleheads are the same ones who claimed and asserted that Russian supply lines “have a different opinion” when a bridge got attacked, and yet, the Russian supplies kept pumping.
Good grief.....
Cranked is lying anyway and is contradicted even by Russian propagandists speaking of the urgency and importance of the "heroic defenders," battalion commanders, loss of defensive capability of the entire sector, and lots of dead bodies.
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But then they went and tossed all the Russian flags into the trash afterwards, like they do in every rally.
Crybar is having a Cryfest right now.
Neither is reality, for that matter.
Right, it was important when the Russians took Lyman in May, but now the key railway junction in unimportant. Okay
Russia Claims Control Of Ukraine’s Lyman City
Russia asserted Saturday that its troops and separatist fighters had captured a key railway junction in eastern Ukraine, the second small city to fall to Moscow's forces this week as they fought to seize all of the country's contested Donbas region.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the city of Lyman had been “completely liberated” by a joint force of Russian soldiers and the Kremlin-backed separatists, who have waged war in the eastern region bordering Russia for eight years.
Lyman, which had a population of about 20,000 before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, serves as a regional railway hub. Ukraine's train system has ferried arms and evacuated citizens during the war, and it wasn't immediately clear how the development might affect either capability. Controlling the city would give the Russian military a foothold for advancing on larger Ukrainian-held cities in Donetsk and Luhansk, the two provinces that make up the Donbas. Since failing to occupy Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, Russia has concentrated on seizing the last parts of the region not controlled by the separatists.
“If Russia did succeed in taking over these areas, it would highly likely be seen by the Kremlin as a substantive political achievement and be portrayed to the Russian people as justifying the invasion,” the British Ministry of Defense said in a Saturday assessment.
https://www.outlookindia.com/international/russia-claims-control-of-ukraine-s-lyman-city-news-199054
With people such as yourself, I tend to take Mark Twain’s advice concerning “arguing with a fool”.
Have a pleasant afternoon.
Tell us which facts are “fake”, tovarische.
Big Brother is watching you!
Big Brother is watching you!
With no way out, the Russians could either surrender, try to escape or die together, Haidai said.
What Hitler said to Stalingrad defenders.
Not to worry, the ‘lisper’ video will soon make an appearance explaining the Russian side..
Do you believe Russia will return to Lyman?
Yope!
Donbass used to be quite industrialized, with lots of coal mining, steel and other production during the Soviet era.
But the LPR, DPR so mismanaged it, and now the rest was destroyed by Russians, the GDP is probably close to 0% right now.
Who knows?
DPA gives an update about the situation… https://youtu.be/vE0oI5H1Bik
“PR for the uninformed”
That’s nonsense.
You’re an embarrassment for the Russian efforts.
It was a major tactical error and defeat. ALMOST a strategically important city for the region.
Yes, Russia will be back and will retake it.
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