On Saturday, October 1, the Ukrainian military entered the city of Liman in the Donetsk region. The city is small, but strategically important for both sides.
British intelligence representatives in a fresh report on the war in Ukraine write that the estuary is an important settlement at the front. Its control allows you to use a key automobile crossing across the Seversky Donets River, for which Russians are trying to build a new line of defense.
“On October 1, 2022, the Russian forces in the city of Liman Donetsk region retreated in the face of a Ukrainian offensive. Liman, probably defended the unfinished units of the Western and Central Military Districts of Russia, as well as the contingents of voluntarily mobilized reservists. Forces probably suffered heavy losses at waste on the only road from the city, still remaining in the hands of Russians, ”British intelligence said.
The report noted that the Russians are trying to gain a foothold behind the river and build a new line of defense. And the Armed Forces will now be able to transfer equipment and resources to the right bank.
“Russia’s departure from Liman is also a significant political failure, since it is located within the Donetsk region, the region, which Russia allegedly sought to” free “and tried to unlawly annex. The withdrawal of the troops led to a new wave of public criticism of the Russian military leadership from the outside senior officials, ”added British experts.
British intelligence believes that this trend will increase.