Ukrainian forces retake lands amid Putin's announcing annexations

UKRAINE - In Brief 01 Oct 2022 by Dmytro Boyarchuk
On the day Vladimir Putin was announcing the annexation of occupied territories Ukrainian forces completed the total encirclement of the Russian grouping in Lyman (nearly 5000 soldiers). This grouping is not big but it includes the most motivated and best trained soldiers Russians have in this area. As soon as this grouping is eliminated, the way for further cleaning of Luhansk region will be open. Allegedly the frontline behind Lyman is held by so called "soft infantry" which includes mobilized soldiers from Luhansk and Donetsk (poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly motivated). Replenishment from Russia with fresh conscripts hardly can change the situation at the front so fast. Maybe later Ukrainian forces will feel the impact of the Russian mobilization but not now. Probably, we are expected to give something of a comment on the declared annexation of occupied territories and on the nuclear blackmail. A popular joke describes the reaction of Ukrainians the best. The jokes tells "To be Ukrainian is not only to be ready for a nuclear strike, but also to have plans for after the strike." Put differently, the pompous speech of the Russian dictator changes nothing. Ukrainian forces keep unfolding counter-offensives successfully. Mobilized Russians, probably, will help to slow down the counter-offensive but they will not stop it. More weapons will arrive from October under the lend-lease program. The Ukrainian leadership is determined to clean the whole occupied territory including Crimea. Should it happen that Russians make a nuclear strike, everything will start developing much faster. The nuclear strike will not destroy either Ukrainian army nor Ukraine as a countr...

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