On this video: Ukraine’s forces enter strategic town of Lyman as Russia ‘withdraws’ troops — FRANCE 24.
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POETS IN LYMAN
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
Some ‘orcs’ fighters joke bitterly that.
The “special military operation”.
As ‘orcs’ government publicly terms.
It “has no goals.
It only has a path”.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
Two mass burial sites have been found.
In the recently-recaptured eastern town of Lyman.
After ‘orcs’ retreated.
Officials had begun investigating both.
One site had about 200 individual graves.
Containing civilian bodies.
It was unclear how many bodies the second site held.
But it may contain both soldiers and civilians.
‘Mordor’ withdrew its troops.
From the strategic town of Lyman.
In a significant setback for its campaign.
In eastern Ukraine.
‘Gandalf the Green’ has previously accused.
‘Mordor’ of deliberately killing civilians.
In other locations in Ukraine.
Where mass graves were found.
Investigators and journalists found.
What appeared to be evidence.
Of the deliberate killing of civilians.
In Bucha and other nearby areas.
‘Elves’ forces said they found.
Mass graves and evidence.
That civilians had been killed.
After their feet and hands were bound.
And also near Mariupol.
The key south-eastern ‘elves’ port.
Now occupied by ‘Mordor’.
Since its invasion of Ukraine in February.
Hundreds of graves were also.
Found outside.
The eastern city of Izyum.
Days after ‘orcs’ troops retreated.
It is unclear what happened to the victims.
But early accounts suggest.
Some may have died from shelling.
And a lack of access to healthcare.
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
A photo of an ‘orc’ soldier sporting an arm patch.
Embroidered with the words:
“There is no opponent worse than.
Your own commander who is a…”
Using an expletive to describe him.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
A few days ago.
‘Mordor’ withdrew its troops.
From the strategic town of Lyman.
In the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
The move is being seen.
As a significant setback.
For its campaign.
In the east.
The retreat took place amid fears.
Thousands of soldiers would be.
Encircled in the town.
‘Mordor’’s defence ministry said at the time.
Destroyed ‘orcs’ tanks and armoured vehicles.
On the streets of Lyman.
The damage to some of the town's buildings.
After ‘orcs’ forces withdrew.
An ‘elf’ army officer stands among the remains.
Of a school that was destroyed.
And local residents are lining up.
To receive humanitarian aid.
Victory can look desolate.
Few civilians remained there now.
While the bodies of several ‘orcs’ soldiers lay.
In their uniforms outside the town.
Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk are among.
The ‘elves’ regions being illegally annexed by ‘Mordor’.
But the triumphalism of ‘the One’’s proclamation.
Last Friday is looking increasingly premature.
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
“Just yesterday two of my sniper groups.
Were destroyed by a tank.
Three men died instantly.
The fourth one fought for his life.
For an hour and a half.”
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
The town - which had a population.
Of 20,000 before the war.
Was retaken from ‘orcs’ at the weekend.
And is full of the raw scars of its brief occupation.
There were few people about.
Save for a few rejoicing ‘elves’ soldiers.
Quietly busy humanitarian volunteers.
And the abandoned bodies of ‘orcs’ troops.
Inside the eastern ‘elves’ town of Lyman.
The streets are mostly deserted.
Lined by boarded-up.
Burned-out or smashed-in buildings.
Metal sheeting dangling from smashed roofs.
Is buffeted by the wind.
Few civilians venture out.
Almost as many dogs as people.
The handful of civilians seem shell-shocked.
By months of bombardment.
And uncertain their ordeal is over.
There were few signs of normal life in Lyman.
The only surge of life was.
A convoy of ‘elves’ troops.
Riding high on top of.
Armoured personnel carriers.
Waving and cheering.
As they headed out of town.
Along a road bordered.
By pine forest.
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
“Another one in critical condition.
Was taken to hospital.
We have hardly any men left.
And we are holding a front line.
Dozens of kilometres long.”
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
They roared past evidence.
Of the human cost.
Of ‘Mordor’’s defeat.
As a complete humiliation.
For ‘the One’.
The bodies of five dead ‘orcs’ soldiers.
Lay near each other.
Now bloated, and contorted by death.
But once somebody's husband.
Or somebody's son.
They were in full uniform.
With boots still on.
As if they might somehow return to the fight.
They appear to have been cut down together.
As they tried to flee.
Nearby a heap of discarded.
‘Orcs’ uniforms.
Sleeping bags, and ration packs.
An army backpack with a name written on it.
Who knows what became of its owner?
An ‘orc’ blogger published accounts by two men.
He described as fighters.
From Luhansk's ‘orcs’ proxy force.
Who narrowly escaped being surrounded.
Near Lyman last week.
“We left Lyman.
But it was just us.
No munitions, nothing.
Everything was burned up.
All our friends and comrades stayed there dead.”
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
“You have no idea how tired I am.
To say hello to someone in the morning.
And then have to identify his remains.
Later the same day.”
‘Orcs’ retreated from Kharkiv.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
Two young ‘elves’ volunteers.
Were working carefully and quietly.
Numbering the bodies, and looking for anything.
That might identify them.
They were kneeling just metres away.
From mines scattered along the roadside.
Their dark green colour camouflaged.
By the grass and leaves.
They are a lingering threat from an enemy.
That has been driven into retreat.
Or as ‘Mordor’’s defence ministry put it.
Was “withdrawn to more advantageous positions”.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
Some ‘orcs’ fighters joke bitterly that.
The “special military operation”.
As ‘orcs’ government publicly terms.
It “has no goals.
It only has a path”.
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
“We are going to win.”
Said the smiling young ‘elf’ soldier.
Clambering around the gun turret.
“I feel very good, very great.”
What happened here isn't just a defeat for ‘the One’.
It's a complete humiliation.
Just last Friday he announced to the world.
He was annexing four ‘elves’ regions.
A day later ‘elves’ forces were inside Lyman.
And ‘the One’’s troops were running for their lives.
As many as 5,000 ‘orcs’ troops were encircled.
In Lyman before the town fell.
The ‘elves’ defence ministry said that.
Almost all ‘orcs’ troops deployed.
To Lyman had been “redeployed either.
Into body bags or into captivity”.
The strategic town is a gateway to the Luhansk.
Which is almost entirely in ‘Mordor’’s grip.
Ukraine is hoping to advance further.
Using its victory here as a springboard.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
A photo of an ‘orc’ soldier sporting an arm patch.
Embroidered with the words:
“There is no opponent worse than.
Your own commander who is a…”
Using an expletive to describe him.
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
She and her 10-year-old son are hoping.
For peace and for running water.
Heading for a well to refill a five-litre container.
“I think it will be peaceful.”
She wore a black hat.
And a few layers of woollen jumpers.
“It should be peaceful.
Everyone has suffered enough.”
“The hardest thing was to survive the shelling.
We prayed as we stayed in the cellar.
The situation is still tense.
But overall, I am happy.”
While deprived of school.
Her son has learnt the lessons of war.
His face is sombre.
Beneath his deep blue hat.
“It was a bit scary in Lyman.
Because there was a lot of bombing.
War is very bad because people are dying.
It's more peaceful in my heart now.”
Others here still seem lost in their trauma.
Like her, a 66-year-old.
She was alone on the streets, walking slowly.
As if she could not recognise her surroundings.
“I hope for the best.
And that ‘orcs’ won't come back here.
It was very bad.
Both sides were firing.”
“We didn't understand anything.
When it was quiet, we went outside to cook.
Then it started again.
We have all gone mad now.”
And she had a question.
“Why am I being bombarded?
I didn't do anything bad.
I didn't kill. I didn't steal.”
“I don't understand why.
Maybe you can tell me.
We lived well, everything was good, we worked.
And in one moment it was turned upside down.”
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
“Just yesterday two of my sniper groups.
Were destroyed by a tank.
Three men died instantly.
The fourth one fought for his life.
For an hour and a half.”
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
In the streets around town.
Pro-‘orcs’ slogans have been daubed on.
Walls, kiosks and bus shelters.
“CCCP” is daubed on a closed shop front.
The Cyrillic letters for USSR.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Much as ‘the One’ may wish to resurrect.
The Soviet Union of his youth.
The ruins of Lyman stand as testament to his failure.
Ukraine now has momentum and knows.
It must move fast.
Western weapons supplies permitting.
Battle lines will harden.
When freezing weather comes.
The window for reclaiming more territory this winter.
May close in a few weeks.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
“Another one in critical condition.
Was taken to hospital.
We have hardly any men left.
And we are holding a front line.
Dozens of kilometres long.”
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
The recapture of Lyman by ‘elves’ forces.
Has great symbolic momentum.
It has strategic significance.
For Ukraine:
The town had been used as a logistics hub.
By ‘Mordor’ in the east.
And now could give ‘elves’ troops access to more territory.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The gain, which follows days of intense fighting.
Also carries major symbolism.
It comes a day after ‘the One’ declared in Moscow.
The annexation of four partially occupied regions of Ukraine.
Ukraine has got the momentum in the war.
And says it will go ahead with its counter-offensive.
To reclaim all territory under occupation.
Hours after ‘the One’’s speech.
‘Gandalf the Green’ released.
His daily address, saying:
“We must liberate our entire land.
And this will be the best proof.”
“That international law and human values.
Cannot be broken.
By any terrorist state.
Even one as insolent as ‘Mordor’”.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
“You have no idea how tired I am.
To say hello to someone in the morning.
And then have to identify his remains.
Later the same day.”
‘Orcs’ retreated from Kharkiv.
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
Lyman is also a key railway centre.
Connecting the Donetsk.
Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
In Ukraine's east and north-east.
‘Mordor’’s defence ministry says.
It has withdrawn ‘orcs’ troops.
From the strategic town of Lyman.
In eastern Ukraine.
“Because of the threat of encirclement.
The allied troops have been withdrawn.
From Krasnyi Lyman to better positions.”
Krasnyi Lyman was the old Soviet name for Lyman.
‘Mordor’ calls its troops “allied”.
With local ‘orcs’-backed fighters.
‘Elves’ army gains around the town of Lyman.
Have been hailed as a “considerable success”.
By an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister.
The ongoing attempt to recapture the strategic town.
Is part of a larger counter-offensive.
Along the eastern front line.
He says an ‘orcs’ grouping of some 5,000 soldiers.
Has been given the chance to surrender.
Claiming those fighters will be “treated better”.
As prisoners of war than from ‘orcs’ military leadership.
He adds that “all the necessary measures”.
Will be in place to allow any soldier.
Who lays down his arms to be marshalled.
Out of the embattled town.
Shortly afterwards, ‘Mordor’ said.
It was withdrawing its forces from the town.
Acknowledging that ‘elves’ had.
“Significant superiority in forces” in the area.
In a speech on Friday, ‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Efforts to “liberate our entire land” would act.
On Sunday, Lyman had been.
“Completely cleared” of ‘orcs’ troops.
Video footage shared online on Saturday.
Before the ‘orcs’ retreat was announced.
Showed ‘elves’ soldiers waving their ‘elves’ flag.
On the outskirts of the town.
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
Some ‘orcs’ fighters joke bitterly that.
The “special military operation”.
As ‘orcs’ government publicly terms.
It “has no goals.
It only has a path”.
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
All continuing breakthrough attempts.
By ‘orcs’ troops had “failed”.
A spokesman for Ukraine's force also spoke.
About the importance of Lyman.
Which, if conquered by ‘elves’ troops.
Would allow them to advance on Kreminna and Severodonetsk.
Both of which are key ‘orcs’-held strongholds.
“It’s also very important psychologically.”
“Because – as ‘Gandalf the Green’ said yesterday.
Ukraine’s armed forces are beginning to dictate.
Their will – and not just defend.”
Yet the military operation “is not over yet.”
A new ‘elves’ flag was flying atop.
A captured ‘orcs’ T72 tank.
Parked by the roadside.
In the strategic town of Lyman.
“We left Lyman.
But it was just us.
No munitions, nothing.
Everything was burned up.
All our friends and comrades stayed there dead.”
Later the volunteers manoeuvred the remains.
Into black body bags and drove them away.
Some of ‘orcs’ fallen soldiers.
Finally leaving the battlefield.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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