Putin’s new perfect humiliation

The Ukrainians liberated the Lyman area, which was vacated by Russian forces on Saturday. The Pope’s historic message to Presidents Putin and Zelensky.

And again, the insult of the Russian armed forces, and especially of its supreme commander and general in the Kremlin, is an excellent case: after the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Saturday that the main transport hub of Lyman in the Ukrainian half of the Donetsk region will be in the face of a Ukrainian attack, Kyiv announced on Sunday that The city and its wider surroundings had been completely captured.

As if this were not enough, well-informed British sources usually said that the Russians, who could in principle only be able to retreat by one main road if they did not wish to drive or march around the country, had suffered heavy losses from artillery fire. And anti-tank missiles along the way. There must have been many casualties. Lyman was held by about 5,000 men, including a rifle regiment of the 20th Army and two moderately motivated regiments from the separatist Luhansk region. Estimates of the number of casualties have not yet been published.