After having reconquered most of the North-East, Ukraine seems launched in the recovery of Lyman, a city in the Donetsk region and an important railway hub that the Russian army has controlled since May. “The adversary is making regular attempts to attack to create the conditions for an encirclement,” a senior pro-Russian local separatist official, Alexei Nikonorov, told Russian television.
Russian bombardments continued to hit Ukrainian cities, killing a child in particular overnight from Thursday to Friday in Dnipro. At least five civilians were killed in the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Donetsk region on Wednesday. Ukrainian forces had also regained full control of the Kupyansk railway junction in the northeast, managing to drive Russian troops from the eastern bank of the city, AFP journalists noted on Thursday, who saw five corpses. in military uniform near vehicles with Russian recognition signs.