Volodymyr Zelensky says ‘Ukrainian flag is already flying over Lyman’, fighting continues

Cover image: A member of the Ukrainian National Guard walks on a bridge spanning the Siverskyi Donets River, in the city of Svyatohirsk, Donetsk region, October 01, 2022. STRINGER / REUTERS

• The Ukrainian army entered on Saturday 1^is October, in Lyman, strategic city in eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk region. ” The Ukrainian flag is already flying over Lyman”, confirmed, on Saturday evening, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his daily address. “Threatened with encirclement, Allied troops were withdrawn from Lyman to more favorable lines”, for its part indicated in a press release the Russian Ministry of Defense. Under Moscow’s control since the end of May, Lyman is an important railway junction, which notably allowed the supply of Russian troops.
• « The fighting continues, but there is no trace of some pseudo-referendum there”continued Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to the annexation referendums carried out on the territory of four Ukrainian administrative regions, including that of Donetsk, carried out by Russia this week and strongly condemned by kyiv and the West.
• The leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, on Saturday called on the Russian army to use “low-power nuclear weapons” in Ukraine, where Moscow’s troops are struggling in some areas.
• At least twenty-four civilians, including ten children, were found shot dead in their car in northeastern Ukraine, near Kupyansk, Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synehoubov announced on Saturday.
• The illegal annexation of the territories of the administrative regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, proclaimed on Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, makes “much more difficult, impossible, almost, the end of the war”the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, told Spanish television channel RTVE on Saturday.
• The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which connects Russia to Germany, has stopped leaking under the sea Baltic, Ulrich Lissek, spokesperson for the company of the same name, told AFP on Saturday. “The water pressure has more or less closed the pipeline, so the gas that’s inside can’t get outunderlined Mr. Lissek. The conclusion is that there is still gas in the pipeline. »
• The director of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plantlocated in Ukrainian territory but occupied by Russian troops, was arrested by a Russian patrol, said on Saturday 1^is October, the public company responsible for operating the Energoatom site.
• Christine Lambrecht, German Defense Minister, made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Saturday, his first since the start of the Russian invasion, when kyiv insistently demanded that Berlin deliver combat tanks. M^me Lambrecht traveled to the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine. She notably met her Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksii Reznikov.

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