STORY: According to its own statements, the Ukrainian army has regained control of Lyman. Videos released on Saturday are said to show soldiers in the strategically important city in eastern Ukraine. Russia took Lyman in May and has since expanded it into a military center. A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry said it had inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy through massive shelling. Nevertheless, this was militarily “significantly superior”. In order to avoid an imminent encirclement, the soldiers had been withdrawn. On the other hand, a spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces said that the Russian group in the Lyman area was surrounded. Taking the city would be Ukraine’s biggest victory on the battlefield since last month’s counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region. The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj promised further quick successes. “In the past week, the number of Ukrainian flags in Donbass has increased. In a week there will be even more,” he said in an evening video address. The ruler of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, criticized the Russian commander responsible for Lyman on Telegram. At the same time, he called for the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine to be examined.