Russia invades Ukraine again?

[Tero]

Take back your words, puppet governor! You are surrounded!

Kyiv, Ukraine
CNN
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Ukrainian forces are encircling Russian troops in Russian-occupied Lyman, in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk, despite Moscow’s annexation of the region that’s been declared illegal by the West.

Ukrainian forces have entered Stavky, a village neighboring Lyman, according to Serhii Cherevatyi, the military spokesperson for the eastern grouping of Ukrainian forces.

“The Russian group in the area of Lyman is surrounded. The settlements of Yampil, Novoselivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve, and Stavky are liberated. Stabilization measures are ongoing there,” Cherevatyi said in a televised press conference on Saturday.

The head of Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Hayday also revealed Saturday further details of the Lyman offensive, suggesting Russian forces had offered to retreat, but to no avail from the Ukrainian side.

“Occupiers asked [their command] for possibility to retreat, and they have been refused. Accordingly, they have two options. No, they actually have three options. Try to break through, surrender, or everyone there will die,” Hayday said.

“There are several thousand of them. Yes, about 5,000. There is no exact number yet. Five thousand is still a colossal grouping. There has never been such a large group in the encirclement before. All routes for the supply of ammunition or the retreat of the group are all completely blocked,” he added.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/europe/u ... index.html

[macdoc]

There is a taste in air of significant escalation

[rainbow]

It looks like the Russians escaped, so that avoids the worst case, for now.

[Tero]

Stunned reactions keep coming in with respect to Ukraine reclaiming Lyman. Andrey Gurulyov, former deputy commander of Russia's southern military district, said he couldn't explain the defeat. He blamed in on a system of lies, "top to bottom" and was suddenly disconnected.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/stat ... 9104627712

Under that there are claims of corruption within the army, with stuff disappearing from storage.

[aufbahrung]

Times explained. Russians, no honour amongst thieves. Chinese, hieroglyphs.

[rasetsu]

Climate change, Monkeypox, Totalitarianism, Nuclear war -- what threat have we missed?

[Sean Hayden]

[macdoc]

Climate change, Monkeypox, Totalitarianism, Nuclear war -- what threat have we missed?

Old age

[rasetsu]

Climate change, Monkeypox, Totalitarianism, Nuclear war -- what threat have we missed?

Old age

[Scot Dutchy]

Liz is meant to have died of that if you believe the fake news.

[aufbahrung]

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/10/0 ... sappeared/

Think it's about somewhere. My guess is it'll sink the US east coast fleet and then lay low for a bit. Putin not being a rational operator and everything.

[Sean Hayden]

—results from vote for independence

Not much for the ‘merica’s what’s done it crowd to work with. Maybe people really don’t want to live in Russia.

[pErvinalia]

I don't know what that's supposed to be showing. What vote for independence?

[Sean Hayden]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Uk ... referendum

[Tero]