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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Spike

Ukrainian authorities take stock of ruins in liberated Lyman

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Ukrainian authorities are just beginning to sift through the wreckage of the devastated city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine as they assess the humanitarian toll, and possibility of war crimes, from a months-long Russian occupation.

Few of the buildings in the city in the Donetsk region — an area which Moscow illegally claimed as Russian territory last week following a staged “referendum” — have survived without damage, and most houses are without basic utilities.

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