UKRAINE’S KEY TOWN IN ANNEXED REGION DECLARED ‘FULLY CLEARED’ OF RUSSIAN FORCES

A day after Moscow said its colors had decided to withdraw from their months-long fort in the north Donetsk region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared the crucial eastern city of Lyman” completely cleared” of Russian forces on Sunday.As of 1230( 0930 GMT), Lyman is completely cleared,” Zelensky said in a short videotape clip on his Telegram channel as quoted by news agency ReutersRussia pulled colors out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian megacity that it had been using as a front- line mecca, after being encircled by Ukrainian forces, as per news agency AP reports.

Russia’s pullout from Lyman complicates its internationally blackened move to addition four regions of Ukraine and paves the way for Ukrainian colors to potentially push further into land that Moscow now immorally claims as its own.Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed to have foisted damage on Ukrainian forces in battling to hold onto Lyman, but said outnumbered Russian colors were withdrawn to more favorable positions.

The Russian advertisement came soon after Ukraine’s air force said it had moved into Lyman and the Ukrainian chairman’s chief of staff posted prints of a Ukrainian flag being hoisted on the city’s outskirts.

Lyman, a crucial transport mecca, had been an important knot in the Russian frontal line for both ground dispatches and logistics. Located 160 kilometers( 100 long hauls) southeast of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s alternate- largest megacity, Lyman is in the Donetsk region near the border with Luhansk region, both of which Russia adjoined Friday after an” vote vote” was held at gunpoint.

Ukrainian forces have reacquired vast swathes of home in a counterattack that started in September which saw them push Russian forces out of the Kharkiv area and move east across the Oskil River toward Lyman and other strategic points.

Meanwhile, Russian drumfires have boosted in recent days as Moscow moved fleetly with the annexation and ordered a mass rallying at home to bolster its forces.