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  • Ukrainian town faces tough winter, a year after driving out Russian forces

    12/21/2023 6:40:52 AM PST · by McGruff · 14 replies
    REUTERS ^ | Dec 21, 2023 | Vitalii Hnidyi, Thomas Peter and Max Hunder
    The few remaining residents in the devastated eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman are preparing for a difficult winter as snow falls and the temperature drops. More than a year after Ukrainian forces drove out Russian troops who occupied Lyman for five months, it's a struggle just to stay warm. "There is no hope in the electricity. There is no gas, the electricity comes and goes. It doesn't depend on people, it depends on the weather," said 63-year-old Hennadiy Batsak, sitting in front of a simple wood-burning stove in his flat. The stove looks jarringly out of place in Batsak's late...
  • Russia abandons Ukraine bastion in apparent collapse after Kyiv severs supply line

    09/10/2022 8:28:51 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 30 replies
    Reuters ^ | September 10, 2022 | Max Hunder and Vitalii Hnidyi
    Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday, a sudden apparent collapse of one of the war's principal front lines after Ukrainian forces moved to encircle the area in a shock advance. The state-run TASS news agency quoted Russia's defence ministry as saying it had ordered troops to leave the area around the city of Izium in Kharkiv province, saying they would be sent to reinforce operations elsewhere in neighbouring Donetsk. The announcement came hours after Ukrainian troops captured the city of Kupiansk further north, the sole railway hub supplying Russia's entire frontline across northeastern Ukraine. That left...