{"id":1669867,"date":"2022-10-03T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669867"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:42:09","slug":"ukraine-eyes-further-gains-claims-full-control-of-key-logistics-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-eyes-further-gains-claims-full-control-of-key-logistics-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Eyes Further Gains, Claims Full Control of Key Logistics Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-eyes-further-gains-claims-full-control-of-key-logistics-hub%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669867&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>KYIV \u2014 Ukraine said on Sunday it was in full control of the eastern logistics hub of Lyman, Kyiv\u2019s most significant battlefield gain in weeks, which a senior official said could provide a staging post for further gains to the east.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of 1230 (0930 GMT), Lyman is fully cleared,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a short video clip on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>There was no comment from the Russian armed forces on Sunday on the status of the city. The Russian defense ministry said on Saturday it was pulling troops out of the area \u201cin connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>The latest stinging setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin came after he proclaimed the annexation of four regions covering nearly a fifth of Ukraine on Friday, an area that includes Lyman.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv and the West have condemned the proclamation as an illegitimate farce.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces captured Lyman from Ukraine in May and had used it as a logistics and transport hub for its operations in the north of the Donetsk region. Losing it is Russia\u2019s largest battlefield loss since Ukraine\u2019s lightning counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region last month.<\/p>\n<p>Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region that neighbors Donetsk, said control over Lyman could help Ukraine reclaim lost territory in his region, whose full capture Moscow announced in early July after weeks of grinding advances.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe liberation of this city in the Donetsk region is one of the key factors for the further de-occupation of the Luhansk region,\u201d Gaidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy on Saturday promised more quick successes in the Donbas, which covers the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are largely under Russian control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past week, the number of Ukrainian flags in Donbas has increased. There will be even more a week\u2019s time,\u201d Zelenskiy said in an evening address.<\/p>\n<p>The areas Putin claimed as annexed \u2013 the Donbas regions and the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia \u2013 form a swath of territory equal to about 18% of Ukraine\u2019s total surface land area.<\/p>\n<p>RUSSIAN ANGER<\/p>\n<p>The battlefield setbacks have triggered a fresh wave of criticism within Russia of how its military operation is being handled.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia\u2019s southern Chechnya region, on Saturday called for a change of strategy \u201cright up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other top officials, including former President Dmitry Medvedev, have suggested Russia may need to resort to nuclear weapons, but Kadyrov\u2019s call was the most urgent and explicit.<\/p>\n<p>Washington says it would respond decisively to any use of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday Lyman\u2019s capture would create new problems for Russia\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very encouraged by what we\u2019re seeing right now,\u201d Austin told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Austin noted that Lyman was positioned across supply lines that Russia has used to push its troops and materiel down to the south and to the west, as the Kremlin presses its more than seven-month-long invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout those routes, it will be more difficult. So it presents a sort of a dilemma for the Russians going forward.\u201d (Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk Additional reporting by Reuters bureaus Writing by Conor Humphries Editing by Frances Kerry)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content KYIV \u2014 Ukraine said on Sunday it was in full control of the eastern logistics hub of Lyman, Kyiv\u2019s most significant battlefield gain in weeks, which a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}