Russia gets a significant victory from Lysychansk city in Ukraine

Russia gets a significant victory from Lysychansk city in Ukraine. 

President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to retake the lost land when Ukraine’s military withdrew from the bombed-out city of Lysychansk. 

This prompted Russia to declare complete control over the eastern Luhansk region, a primary Kremlin war objective.

On Sunday, Ukraine said that the tactical retreat would spare the lives of its forces, who would regroup and use long-range Western weaponry to mount a counteroffensive.

Moscow said it had “liberated” Luhansk with the seizure of Lysychansk less than a week after seizing neighboring Sievierdonetsk. 

It said it would hand over Luhansk to the self-declared, supported by Russia, Luhansk People’s Republic, whose independence it had acknowledged on the eve of the conflict.

The battlefront now concentrates on the neighboring Donetsk area, where Kyiv still has significant territorial control.

Zelensky added in his nightly video on Sunday, “If the army’s leaders evacuate personnel from particular locations at the front, where the enemy has the greatest advantage in firepower, and this also applies to Lysychansk, it implies only one thing.”

We will return because of our strategies and the increased availability of sophisticated weaponry.

Zelensky said that while Russia was focusing its firepower on the Donbas front, Ukraine would retaliate with long-range weaponry like the HIMARS rocket launchers provided by the United States.

“Equally crucial is that we safeguard the lives of our troops and citizens. People must be protected above everything else, and we will rebuild the walls and retake the territory, “said Zelensky.

Russia has focused its military effort on the industrial Donbas heartland, including the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, where Moscow-backed separatist proxies have been battling Ukraine since 2014. Since abandoning an attack on the capital Kyiv, Russia has focused its military operation.

According to the Russian defense ministry, Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin that the city of Luhansk had been “liberated” after Russia had previously claimed that its troops had taken towns around Lysychansk and ringed the city.

According to Ukraine’s military leadership, its men were compelled to leave the city.

“The prolongation of the city’s defense would have devastating repercussions. Therefore, the decision to withdraw was decided to protect the lives of Ukrainian defenders, “It said in a social media statement.

Residents in residential areas have reported intense artillery barrages, according to Ukrainian authorities who claim that allusions to “liberating” Ukrainian land are Russian propaganda.

At least six people were murdered when the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk was pounded by heavy fire from many rocket launchers on Sunday, according to local authorities in the Lysychansk district of the Donetsk oblast.