This is an opportunity to go further to Kreminna and Severodonetsk. “ of Lyman is important, because it is another step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas. Stabilization measures are ongoing there,” Cherevatyi said in a televised press conference on Saturday morning. The settlements of Yampil, Novoselivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve, and Stavky are liberated. “The Russian group in the area of Lyman is surrounded. Ukrainian forces said earlier Saturday that they had entered Stavky, a village neighboring Lyman, according to Serhii Cherevatyi, the military spokesperson for the eastern grouping of Ukrainian forces. Russia’s announcement comes just hours after Ukrainian forces said they had encircled Russian troops in the city, which is located in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk. The retreat marks Ukraine’s most significant gain since its successful counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region last month. Russian state media Russia-24 reported that the reason for Russia’s withdrawal was because “the enemy used both Western-made artillery and intelligence from North Atlantic alliance countries.” “In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, allied troops were withdrawn from the settlement of Krasny Liman to more advantageous lines,” the ministry said on Telegram, using the Russian name for the town of Lyman. Russian forces retreated from Lyman, a strategic city for its operations in the east, the Russian defense ministry said Saturday, just a day after Moscow’s annexation of the region that’s been declared illegal by the West.
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