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The Associated Press

Russia withdraws its troops from a key city encircled by Ukrainian forces

Artillery craters are seen in the field from an aerial view in the recently liberated area of Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Friday. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

KYIV, Ukraine — After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city that it had been using as a front-line hub. It was the latest victory for the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered the Kremlin.

Russia's withdrawal from Lyman complicates its internationally vilified declaration just a day earlier that it had annexed four regions of Ukraine — an area that includes Lyman. Taking the city paves the way for Ukrainian troops to potentially push further into land that Moscow now illegally claims as its own.

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