Ukraine’s army is pushing further on from the strategically important town of Lyman that it retook from Russia over the weekend, raising the pressure on President Vladimir Putin who had claimed the territory for the Russian Federation just days earlier.
The hard-fought victory in Lyman, a transport hub in the north-east of the province of Donetsk, was sealed on Saturday after nearly three weeks of heavy fighting.
It sets the stage for the possible advance of Ukrainian forces towards the town of Svatove, a key logistics centre for the Russian military who were pushed out of the Kharkiv region in a lightning Ukrainian counter-offensive last month.
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