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Ukraine forces liberate key eastern city of Lyman
The Guardian ^ | Luke Harding

Posted on 10/01/2022 8:07:14 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

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To: jdsteel

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?


21 posted on 10/01/2022 8:35:08 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler

“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.


22 posted on 10/01/2022 8:36:39 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: jdsteel

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.....


23 posted on 10/01/2022 8:36:47 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler
More of a nazi rally than a rock concert.


24 posted on 10/01/2022 8:36:54 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: BeauBo

25 posted on 10/01/2022 8:41:11 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Timber Rattler; cranked; All
But Comrade Cranked, that town had been formally annexed by Russia, no? Why would Comrade Putin abandon an “annexed” town if it meant so much to him?

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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26 posted on 10/01/2022 8:42:43 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: marcusmaximus

But then they went and tossed all the Russian flags into the trash afterwards, like they do in every rally.


27 posted on 10/01/2022 8:43:50 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Crybar is having a Cryfest right now.


28 posted on 10/01/2022 8:45:29 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: AZJeep
Hey, he also said the Donbass had 95% of Ukraine's GDP, so clearly math is not cranked's strong suit.

Neither is reality, for that matter.

29 posted on 10/01/2022 8:47:18 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: cranked
counts as a ‘big win’ for Ukraine

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

30 posted on 10/01/2022 8:47:52 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: cranked

With people such as yourself, I tend to take Mark Twain’s advice concerning “arguing with a fool”.

Have a pleasant afternoon.


31 posted on 10/01/2022 8:50:52 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

Tell us which facts are “fake”, tovarische.


32 posted on 10/01/2022 8:57:46 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Big Brother is watching you!


33 posted on 10/01/2022 8:59:50 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Big Brother is watching you!


34 posted on 10/01/2022 9:02:05 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Timber Rattler

With no way out, the Russians could either surrender, try to escape or die together, Haidai said.
What Hitler said to Stalingrad defenders.


35 posted on 10/01/2022 9:02:32 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: traderrob6

Not to worry, the ‘lisper’ video will soon make an appearance explaining the Russian side..


36 posted on 10/01/2022 9:04:27 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Timber Rattler

Do you believe Russia will return to Lyman?


37 posted on 10/01/2022 9:13:20 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

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?


38 posted on 10/01/2022 9:17:49 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Timber Rattler

DPA gives an update about the situation… https://youtu.be/vE0oI5H1Bik


39 posted on 10/01/2022 9:20:50 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: cranked

“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.


40 posted on 10/01/2022 9:22:19 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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