HIGH RUSSIAN LOSSES ON EXIT FROM LYMAN -BRITISH INTELLIGENCE

Sun 02 October 2022:

According to British military intelligence, Russia’s forces are believed to have sustained significant losses as they withdrew from Lyman, a strategically significant town in eastern Ukraine.

The British Defence Ministry’s daily brief stated on Sunday that the town in the Donetsk region was “likely being defended by undermanned elements of Russia’s Western and Central Military Districts as well as contingents of voluntarily mobilized reservists.”

The report continued, “The force probably experienced heavy casualties as it withdrew along the only road out of the town still in Russian hands.”

In a humiliating loss to the Ukrainian army, Russia withdrew from the town of Lyman on Saturday. Just a day earlier, Moscow declared it had annexed the Ukrainian region, a move declared illegal by the UN.

Lyman is a rail hub and features a key road crossing over the Donets river, “behind which Russia has been attempting to consolidate its defences,” the intelligence update said.

According to the Russian military, the forces withdrew because of the risk of encirclement. Earlier, Ukrainian authorities had spoken of about 5,000 trapped Russian soldiers. There has been no concrete information on the number of casualties or possible prisoners of war.

The withdrawal triggered a wave of public criticism of the military leadership in Russian government circles, the British said.

“Further losses of territory in illegally occupied territories will almost certainly lead to an intensification of this public criticism and increase the pressure on senior commanders.”

Daily updates on the progress of the war have been published by the British Ministry of Defense. London is charged with a deliberate disinformation campaign by Moscow.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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