The loss of Lyman would be a serious setback for Russia. The routes out of Lyman appear to be controlled by Ukraine or within its artillery range, complicating a potential Russian withdrawal. The Ukrainian military has closed in on Lyman from the west and south, aiming to fully envelop the city and cut off the remaining Russian troops.
Source: Institute for the Study of War with American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project The New York Times Ukraine reclaimed two key railway hubs, Izium and Lyman.Īcross both fronts, Ukraine has recaptured more than 1,200 square miles over the two weeks that ended on Oct. In the northeast, Ukraine routed Russian forces. After a slow start, the assault led to the recapturing of a swath of territory in early October. 29 with M113 armored personnel carriers, provided by the United States, advancing on Russian forces on the western bank of the Dnipro River, isolated from supply lines by the broad waterway. Ukraine has continued to reclaim occupied territory in the northeast, east and south. The Russian military cannot quickly shift forces between the two fronts in the counteroffensive as it must move outside the semicircle, while the Ukrainian army, inside the circle, can move in shorter, straighter lines. Ukraine’s double offensive takes advantage of the geometry of the war along a semicircle of frontline. Putin of Russia responded by annexing and declaring four provinces of Ukraine part of Russia and saying he would defend them by any means, a thinly veiled threat of a nuclear strike. The twin counterstrikes shifted the momentum in the war to Ukraine after months of bloody stalemate and signaled to Western allies its capability to reclaim occupied territory, lessening the pressure to negotiate a settlement that would leave Russia controlling land it captured. Source: Institute for the Study of War with American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project. Russian hardliners celebrated on Monday, saying the attacks were a long-awaited sign that the Kremlin was intensifying its attacks against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.Īgnes Chang, Josh Holder and Pablo Robles Putin has been facing increasing pressure from pro-war nationalists, as his forces in Ukraine faced one retreat after another in recent weeks, losing some 1,200 square miles of hard-won territory in the south and east. He warned that “no one should have any doubt” that Russia will defend itself. Putin said Russia had targeted “energy, military command and communications facilities of Ukraine” in response to Saturday’s attack on the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia with Crimea. In a televised address on Monday, President Vladimir V. A number of civilian areas were targeted, blowing out windows, setting vehicles ablaze and forcing residents to spend several hours in basements and subway stations as air raid sirens blared. Several missiles struck Kyiv in the largest attack on the city in months.
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