Another Ukrainian city was captured by Russian forces

Russia has taken full control of another Ukrainian city. The town of Liman in the eastern province of Donetsk has been captured by Russian troops, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kirilenko has acknowledged. Kirilenko said in a statement on Friday that "Russian troops have taken full control of Lehman." He added that Russian troops were also fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in two Donetsk cities, Severodnetsk and neighboring Lysichensk. In both cases, there is the full support of Russian separatists in Ukraine. "We have lost control of the city of Liman," Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, told the BBC that Russia was conducting a well-planned operation. This means that the Russian military's operational management and tactical capabilities have increased. " Putin announced the launch of a "special military operation" in Ukraine on February 24 amid tensions surrounding the Western military alliance NATO. Two days earlier, he had recognized Donetsk and Luhansk as separate states. At present, the Russian army is engaged in an all-out war to separate the two regions from Ukraine. Thousands of Russian troops and officers have been killed in the fighting, but there is no sign of retreat. Russian forces have already taken control of the eastern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, the northeastern coastal city of Mariupol and the country's central province of Zaporizhiya. The last control of Liman also passed into their hands. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has recently commented that Russian President Vladimir Putin is successfully moving towards his goal, albeit at a slower pace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that if Russia's campaign is prolonged, the Donbass region will become depopulated.