Russian forces in Donetsk salient risk being cut off, after daring Ukrainian manoeuvre on independence day (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,643)

Ukrainian assault brigades race to sever a key Russian bulge near Lyman while Moscow’s troops are still grinding forward towards Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, bringing the war’s most decisive battle for Donbas ever closer.

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Russian forces in Donetsk salient risk being cut off, after daring Ukrainian manoeuvre on independence day (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,643)

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