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?
Does not change anything.
And will have no impact whatsoever to ongoing Russian operations.
Nothing more than look over here, not over there.
PR for the uninformed.
“Why would Comrade Putin abandon an “annexed” town”
He can simply hold another pompous ceremony in his palace, and sign another diktat that the Ukrainian forces now controlling Lyman are to be considered Russian, and therefore it is he that has won.
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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