⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Fighting for Lyman in September 21-22, 2022

▪️Ukrainian units began an assault on Drobysheve on September, 21. The objective was to press Russian troops out of the locality and reach Stavky to encircle Lyman from the north.

▪️In Drobysheve, the AFU managed to push back the Russian Armed Forces to the outskirts of the locality, but the Russian contingent continues to defend the settlement.

▪️In the evening, a Ukrainian armoured group broke through the front northwest of Lyman. From Rubtsi and Lozove direction, enemy motorized infantry cut into the Russian Armed Forces' defensive lines near Ridkodub and Karpiwka.

▪️The Ukrainian mechanized detached unit was timely detected by air reconnaissance: it was hit by heavy fire. This made it possible to slow down the pace of the offensive and thwart plans to cut into the Russian Armed Forces' defensive lines. At the moment the fighting is taking place in the fields between the villages of Karpiwka and Lozove.

▪️Despite the disruption of the AFU initial plans to strike deep into the LPR territory, Ukrainian units have managed to gain a foothold in Drobysheve and near Karpiwka.

▪️The Ukrainian command is currently redeploying additional forces to carry out another assault and encircle Lyman. If no Russian Armed Forces’ action follows, such a scenario is not far off.