https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/europe/ukraine-lyman-visit-intl/index.html
CNN team visits key city of Lyman, hours after Ukraine regains control from Russian forces
Ukrainian officials and troops had spoken repeatedly of large numbers of Moscow’s better units being trapped there. Yet on Sunday there were few signs of encirclement to be seen.
Some officials said Russian corpses had already been cleared away and prisoners removed. But locals offered another explanation: that Russian forces had left the city on Friday in an orderly fashion.
“They got on their tanks, and drove out,” said Tanya, riding her bicycle back to the bomb shelter, where she still spends the nights with 15 others.
A Ukrainian army spokesman, asked to respond to CNN’s reporting, denied there had been a Russian withdrawal two days ago, saying there had been fighting in the area as recently as Saturday.
Sergiy Cherevatiy, of the Eastern Group of Armed Forces of Ukraine, said Russian troops had formed convoys to break through the de facto encirclement of the city. Some succeeded in getting out, he said, while others had been hit.
i thought CNN was not allowed in Russia, and faced arrest for fake news
not mentioned: Bucha / Mariupol / Izium style "torture and mass graves" - but then, here hasn't been 4 days of "rooting out Russian collaborators" yet
i am missing something here
almonds tingling