Only last week, few of us could place Lyman and the village of Dudchany on a map of Ukraine. Today they mark two of the biggest defeats of Russian arms in the Ukraine war – and these may prove decisive.
Lyman, logistics hub for the two oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, fell the day after Vladimir Putin had declared the two districts, as well as Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as sovereign Russian territory “to be defended forever.”
