The Ukrainian counter-offensive launched on September 6 in the Kharkiv region has now reached the province of Donetsk, in the Donbass. The Russian military collapse, meteoric around Izium, is slower around Lyman, but real.
The Ukrainian army is encircling the city. Russian troops have already evacuated the Lyman pocket, while others were, Friday, September 30, fighting to find a way out. The kyiv troops have communicated very little information on the exact state of the front since the launch of the counter-offensives on August 29. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just welcomed on Friday the “significant results” in the region, while Moscow celebrated the annexation, considered illegal by kyiv and the international community, from this province of Donetsk and three other occupied territories in Ukraine. Our journalist, Rémy Ourdan, tells us in this article about the essential role of the Ukrainian police on the front.