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Russian Proxies Claim Control of Key Town in East Ukraine
Russia’s separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine claimed full control of the important battlefield town of Lyman on Friday, and Ukraine appeared to concede it, as Moscow presses its biggest advance for weeks.
Lyman, site of a key railway hub, has been a major front line as Russian forces press down from the north, one of three directions from which they have been attacking Ukraine’s industrial Donbass region. The pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic separatists said they were now in full control of it….