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Some military analysts point at a small but realistic chance that this could lead to a cascade effect for the Russian front in the Donbass, letting it all collapse: Focus writes:
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In the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Russian troops are apparently threatened with encirclement by the Ukrainian army. Russian war reporters on Wednesday reported successful Ukrainian advances northeast and east of the small town of Lyman. Russian occupiers have been in the town since late May.

For several days already, the last communication routes from the town of 20,000 inhabitants to the Russian-controlled region have been within the reach of Ukrainian troops and their artillery. Most recently, the Ukrainians recaptured several villages and settlements outside the city.
Ukrainian soldiers fire a mortar in the recently recaptured town of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region.

If the settlement of Torske is recaptured, the Russians threaten to cut off the roads connecting Lyman to Kreminna and Svatov in the Luhansk region. The roads are already under fire from Ukrainian artillery. Also near the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv Oblast, at least one more town on the east side of the Oskil River, Kivshivka, has been retaken, according to Ukrainian sources. Ukrainian forces have already crossed the river in several places.
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