“Russian forces withdrew from the strategic eastern city of Lyman on Saturday, just a day after President Vladimir Putin’s internationally derided declaration that the region where it lies and three others in Ukraine were now part of Russia,” the New York Times reports.
“The battle for Lyman, a city in Donetsk Province with a pre-war population of 20,000, is particularly poorly timed for the Kremlin after it illegally declared its annexation of swaths of Ukraine and Kyiv’s stunning victories in the country’s northeast last month.”
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