Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 28: The strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine, on the path to two key cities still under Kyiv’s control, was seized by Russia’s forces on Saturday.
“Following the joint actions of the units of the militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian armed forces, the town of Krasny Liman has been entirely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists,” the defence ministry said in a statement, confirming an announcement a day earlier by pro-Moscow separatists, as reported by AFP.
The town’s previous name was Krasny Liman, which had a population of roughly 20,000 people before the war.
Lyman is on the road to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the capital of the Ukrainian-controlled sector of the territory, and is located in the north of the eastern Donetsk region.
