Summary

Russia is fighting for settlements it once firmly held in Donetsk, and has retreated from many others, as Operation Vivaldi unfolds. The Kremlin-aligned channel Rybar, on Telegram, said on October 7 that Moscow’s forces were losing villages south of Lyman, a town they have tried to capture as a springboard to mount a full-scale offensive on the “fortress belt” cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

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