Bodies Of Water In Russia

Bodies of Russian soldiers lie in town recaptured by Ukraine

Ukrainian soldiers are collecting the bodies of their comrades in Lyman, a Donetsk town, only reportedly not immediately removing those of Russians.

The bodies of Russian soldiers are lying in the streets of a key eastern Ukrainian town following their comrades' retreat that marked the latest defeat for Moscow.

The Ukrainian military collected the bodies of their comrades on Tuesday after trigger-happy battles for control of Lyman, a primal logistics and transport hub, but did not immediately remove those of the Russians, co-ordinate to reports.

As Russia moved forrad with annexing 4 Ukrainian regions, its troops pulled back from Lyman on Sat to avoid being encircled past Ukrainian forces. The metropolis's liberation gave Ukraine a fundamental vantage point for pressing its offensive deeper into Russian-held territories.

Lyman residents emerged from the basements where they hid during the battle for the boondocks and congenital fires for cooking. The boondocks has had no water, electricity or gas since May.

Ukrainian serviceman. — A Ukrainian serviceman smokes a cigarette subsequently he identifies the body of a comrade in Lyman [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

"Nosotros fight for our land, for our children, and so that our people tin live better, but all this comes at a very high price," said a Ukrainian soldier who goes past the nom de guerre Rud.

An 85-twelvemonth-onetime, who identified herself as Valentyna Kuzmichna, recalled a recent explosion nearby.

"I was continuing in the hall, near five metres away, when it boomed," she said. "God forbid, now I can't hear well."

Counteroffensives proceed

The Russian forces launched more than missile attacks at Ukrainian cities on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces pressed their counteroffensives in the east and the south.

Several missiles hit Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, damaging its infrastructure and causing power cuts. Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov said one person was killed, and at least 2 others – including a ix-year-onetime girl – were wounded. INTERACTIVE Which Ukrainian regions is Russia annexing-

In the south, iv civilians were injured when Russian missiles hit the metropolis of Nikopol.

After reclaiming control of Lyman in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian forces pushed further east and may have gone as far every bit the border of the neighbouring Luhansk region as they avant-garde towards Kreminna, the U.s.a.-based Institute for the Study of War said in its latest analysis.

On Monday, Ukrainian forces besides scored meaning gains in the s, raising flags over the villages of Arkhanhelske, Myroliubivka, Khreshchenivka, Mykhalivka and Novovorontsovka.

The Ukrainian successes in the east and the south came even every bit Russia moved to absorb iv Ukrainian regions amid the fighting at that place.

Annexation

The Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, voted on Tuesday to ratify treaties to make the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions part of Russian federation.

The lower house had rapidly rubber-stamped the accession pacts after last week's Kremlin-orchestrated annexation "referendums" that Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed every bit illegal and fraudulent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to apace endorse the annexation treaties.

Russia'due south moves to contain the Ukrainian regions have been done so hastily that even the exact borders of the territories beingness absorbed were unclear.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Donetsk and Luhansk are joining Russia with the same authoritative borders that existed earlier a disharmonize erupted there in 2014 between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. He said the borders of Zaporizhia and Kherson are still undecided.

Merely a senior Russian lawmaker offered a different view. Pavel Krasheninnikov said Zaporizhia will be absorbed with its "administrative borders", significant Moscow plans to contain parts of the region still nether Kyiv's control. He said similar logic would apply to Kherson just that Russia will include two districts of the neighbouring Mykolaiv region that are now occupied past Russia.