(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 30 - Russian forces are "partially surrounded" in the strategic eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, a senior separatist official recognized on Friday, on the day of the planned annexation of four Ukrainian regions from Moscow.
"At the moment Lyman is partially surrounded. The Svatove road is under our control, but it is periodically under fire," Denis Pushilin, head of the separatist stronghold in Donetsk, said on Telegram, acknowledging that the villages of Yampil and Drobycheve, close to Lyman, "do not they are under full control "of Moscow.
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