“Severe embarrassment” my arse.
If taking a deserted town that had an occupancy of less than 15000+/- people, defended by roughly 500+/- LPR/DPR MILITIA and irregulars counts as a ‘big win’ for Ukraine and NATO, then Ukraine and NATO are doomed.
A pretty lame consolation prize when Russia has just grown by at approximately 10% in the space of 1 day!
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?
BWWWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA, several “facts” in your posting are on their face demonstrably a lie.
At least make an attempt to post something that meets the criteria of being at the very least specious.
Your Kadyrov is not happy with Putin losing Lyman
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4097418/posts
approximately 10% in the space of 1 day!
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What?
Did they annexed Mexico?
Even the whole Ukraine is not 10% of Russia, you (expletive deleted).
“… when Russia claimed it had just grown by at approximately 10% in the space of 1 day based on “elections” that were more of a sham than our 2020 election, you mean.
And when mad Vlad claims the Ukes attacked Russian territory…it won’t have been the first time nor the last.
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
Shouldn’t you count the reservist BARS 13 & 16 as well as the 752nd Regiment of 3rd Mechanized Division? Or not?