{"id":48791,"date":"2022-10-01T22:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48791"},"modified":"2023-10-01T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:01:04","slug":"russias-ridicule-it-loses-the-ukrainian-city-of-lyman-just-one-day-after-annexing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/01\/russias-ridicule-it-loses-the-ukrainian-city-of-lyman-just-one-day-after-annexing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia's ridicule: it loses the Ukrainian city of Lyman just one day after annexing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian city of Lyman, in the Donetsk region, has today been liberated by the Ukrainian Army, in a new milestone in its counteroffensive against the Russians.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/27\/ukraine-vs-afghanistan-a-comparison-of-moscows-losses-in-both-invasions\/\">Ukraine vs Afghanistan: A comparison of Moscow's losses in both invasions<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/24\/rusty-rifles-and-drunk-soldiers-some-pathetic-images-of-the-russian-army\/\">Rusty rifles and drunk soldiers: some pathetic images of the Russian Army<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This city was occupied by the Russian army on May 27, and has been liberated just <strong>one day after Putin affirmed the annexation of the Ukrainian region of Donetsk to Russia<\/strong>, an illegal annexation carried out after of an annexation referendum that was a complete farce.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52396907892_3bc5e7fa4d_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russian Defense Minister Igor Konashenkov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/world\/865841\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has today acknowledged the withdrawal of their troops from Liman<\/a>, affirming that they have withdrawn \"due to the threat of encirclement\" in that city, <strong>moving \"towards more advantageous lines\"<\/strong>. A painful attempt to whitewash a new Russian defeat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52397914408_4a760f7f0d_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/rus\/news\/2022\/10\/1\/7369968\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine commented today Lyman's liberation<\/a> with an ironic statement about the fake annexation referendums organized by Russia: <em>\"<strong>The Ukrainian army has and will always have a decisive vote in the 'referendums' of today and in any future <\/strong>\"<\/em>. You can see here a video with<strong> images of the raising of the Ukrainian flag at the entrance to the city of Lyman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0413\u043e\u0440\u044f\u0447\u0430\u044f \u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c. \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0444\u043b\u0430\u0433 \u0432\u044b\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0432\u044a\u0435\u0437\u0434\u0435 \u0432 \u041b\u0438\u043c\u0430\u043d\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3KNNQKhlVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below these lines you can see a video of <strong>Ukrainian troops announcing the release of Lyman in the administrative center of this city:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The city center of Lyman today.<br \/>Servicemen of the 81st Airborne Brigade and National Guard tore down the enemy&#39;s flags. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5w2DpSfqId\">pic.twitter.com\/5w2DpSfqId<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceU\/status\/1576313811598200832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ukrainian daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/rus\/news\/2022\/10\/1\/7369968\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainska Pravda<\/a> has pointed out that Liman <em>\"was used by the Russians, along with Izyum, as one of the strongholds for the attack on Slavyansk. <strong>By taking control of Liman, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will also be able to control the road to Svatovo to Kremennaya<\/strong>, which is important for supplying the Russian group in the southwestern sector of the Lugansk region.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With this new victory over the Russians, <strong>Ukrainian forces make it clear that they are not intimidated by threats from Moscow<\/strong> following the political farce organized by Putin to annex part of Ukraine's territory, including areas that are not even under Russian control. <strong>What is evident with the liberation of Lyman is that Russia continues to back down and has only called these referendums to try to avoid its military defeat<\/strong>, sell the Russian people some success (even if it is political) and force Ukraine to sit down to negotiate (that is, to give up part of their territory). <strong>Ukraine has already made it clear that it does not intend to give up on expelling the Russian occupiers from the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian city of Lyman, in the Donetsk region, has today been liberated by the Ukrainian Army, in a new milestone in its counteroffensive against the Russians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[16122,17552,10731,12043,16153,15307,16151],"class_list":["post-48791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-donetsk","tag-lyman","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}