On Friday, Zelenskyy made the statement in a video speech, but the president gave no further details. On Saturday morning, Reuters reports that Ukrainian forces have surrounded the city. – This operation around Liman will allow us to advance towards the region of Luhansk, says spokesman for the Ukrainian forces in Luhansk Sergej Haidai. There are supposed to be around 500 Russian soldiers who are now surrounded in the city. Recapturing control Early on Friday there were reports that a large Russian force was surrounded outside the city, which is located in the Donetsk region. – The situation is still difficult, our people are holding out with their last strength, pro-Russian Denis Pushilin, who leads the separatist authorities in the Donetsk region, told the state-run Russian news agency Ria Novosti. Pushilin confirmed that Ukrainian government forces are in the process of recapturing control of villages in the area. Liman is located in the northern part of Donetsk, south of the areas of Kharkiv that Ukrainian forces recaptured earlier in September. The city has been controlled by Russia since this spring, and a larger Russian force is deployed here. The situation around Liman has not yet been confirmed by independent sources. Overshadows ceremony The news of the fighting around Liman came at the same time as the Russian authorities were preparing the ceremony in which Donetsk and three other Ukrainian areas were annexed and declared Russian. Pushilin said on Friday that Ukrainian forces are trying to overshadow the historic incorporation into Russia. – Our people are fighting, we are calling out reserves and we have to persevere, despite the fact that the enemy has deployed significant forces against us, said the Donetsk leader. Blocking supply routes Liman is an important rail hub in eastern Ukraine. According to the authorities in Kyiv, Ukrainian forces are close to the city and that a village five kilometers away has been recaptured. There were fierce battles around the railway junction Liman in our spring. Now Ukrainian forces are in the process of recapturing the city that the Russians took control of in June. Photo: JORGE SILVA / Reuters All supply routes that the Russians use for ammunition and reinforcements are to be blocked on Friday afternoon, according to Ukrainian military sources. Several pro-Russian military bloggers and Ukrainian military sources have mentioned the fierce fighting going on around the city. One of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s advisers tweeted on Friday that the Russian forces would have to ask to be let out of Lyman if they wanted to surrender. Should Ukraine succeed in recapturing the city, it could pave the way for advancing further into Donetsk and the neighboring region of Luhansk.
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