INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Moscow-backed separatists announced the capture Friday of the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman as the gathering pace of a Russian advance
in eastern Ukraine was cheered on by pro-Kremlin online groups.The claim followed days of intense fighting in Lyman, which lies on a road
flag being raised over a local government building.Moscow's forces have been making steady gains in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and
Luhansk in recent days, according to Ukrainian officials, sparking fears that Russian troops will soon be able to achieve the encirclement
Osvedomitel, which has 451,000 subscribers, told The Moscow Times
during an evacuation near Lyman, Ukraine.Evgeniy Maloletka / AP Photo / TASSVideos of Ukrainian forces retreating westward and ferocious
Russian bombardments were widely shared online this week.In particular, Russia has positioned a large number of troops and equipment around
concentrating its forces in this way, Russia has been able to make some territorial gains, according to Robert Bell, a former NATO official
and professor at Georgia Tech Institute.Russian troops are currently reported to be fighting both east and west out of Popasna, attempting
civilians were killed in the bloody and destructive Russian siege of Mariupol, a Ukrainian port city, which finally fell earlier this
scale-down its ambitions in Ukraine, regrouping its forces in the east in what looks like an attempt to capture the Donbas region in its
Ukrainian side expects the situation to improve in the long-run, Arestovych stressed that Ukrainian forces have a difficult month ahead as
said a report published Wednesday by the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S
deliver a boost to Russian troops, and lift morale among war supporters in Russia, Bell said they should not be overstated when assessing
