Fierce fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, with the Russian army making powerful attempts to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, particularly in the Lyman sector.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled all attacks by Russian invaders in the Lyman and Avdiivka directions over the past day. Additionally, the Ukrainian military launched 11 air strikes on enemy positions.
The Security Service of Ukraine intercepted a phone call of a Russian soldier, which confirms that the invaders killed civilians and raped women while retreating from Lyman in Donetsk region.
The Russian troops continue to focus their efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, and hold the defense in the Novopavlivka and Kherson directions.
The Russian troops continue to focus their efforts on Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions and try to improve their tactical position in Kupyansk and Lyman directions.
The Russian troops are attempting to regain the lost position in the Lyman direction. In other directions, the invaders are focusing efforts on restraining units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
The police have completed exhumation procedures at the largest mass burial site in the Donetsk region’s Lyman. A total of 111 bodies of civilians and 35 of the Ukrainian military were recovered.
On October 17, at 1:30 p.m., a briefing will be held on the topic: "Preliminary conclusions of the exhumation in the de-occupied Lyman; humanitarian situation in Donetsk region".
The return of the town of Lyman in the Donetsk region to Ukraine's control shows that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are able to push back Russian forces from the territories temporarily occupied by them.
Liberation of the town of Lyman from Russian invaders, who are now pocketed in the area, will be the beginning of de-occupation of the entire Luhansk region.