The control of the Ukrainian army on Sunday over the city of Lyman, which is an important railway center in the Donetsk region (east of the country) annexed by Moscow, poses a major problem for the Russian forces, which find themselves in a defensive position and are forced to draw a new front line. the east of the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, railways meet at the Kobyansk Vozlovy station and then head south towards Svatovey in the Moscow-annexed Lugansk region.During the six-month Russian occupation, these railways transported supplies for Moscow's forces deployed south, making this station a vital logistical center for Russian military operations.
However, the situation has changed in recent days. The Ukrainian counterattack allowed Kiev to regain large parts of the region's territory, forcing the Russian forces to retreat.
"This site has always been an important strategic point," said a Ukrainian soldier nicknamed "Rusomakha". Behind him, the windows of the station were smashed, and the lobby was desolate.
While inspecting the unit to which "Rosomakha" belongs to the station on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky officially announced the restoration of Lyman on the front line in the Donetsk region.