Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said the Russians are 'not real warriors,' though stressed Ukraine is suffering casualties.
Haidai said the focus of fighting in the area is now Lyman, a strategically valuable railway junction town west of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, over which the Russians and Ukrainians fought for months earlier this year.
An abandoned Russian tank sits in front of a Soviet World War Two statue on September 11, 2022 in Izyum, Ukraine, amid the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region.Haidai stressed that Ukraine's counteroffensive is bringing great success at high cost. "Minimizing losses will be the priority, rather than retaking this or that town at any cost," he added.
As Russian lines collapse and units flee ahead of the Ukrainian advance, local resistance is active, Haidai said."We are seeing pockets of resistance even in areas still technically under Russian control, as people quietly raise Ukrainian flags over administrative buildings as they sense the Russians' fear or see them retreating. And we will soon liberate those settlements."who facilitated Russian occupation, whether since 2014 or since February.
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