On September 30, the whole city of Moscow celebrated the merger of the four eastern Ukrainian prefectures into Russia. Unexpectedly, the next day, the Ukrainian was poured with cold water.
This cold water is the loss of Liman, an important city in Wudong that has just become a "land of Russia" for only one day.
On October 1, Russian Ministry of Defense announced: "Faced with the danger of being surrounded, the Russian coalition withdrew from Chongliman and retreated to a more favorable position."
Fortunately, the main force of the Russian army in the encirclement finally broke through in an established manner and was not "making dumplings".
The Ukrainian army has a four-to-one military advantage, but it failed to fight an annihilation battle, which shows that the Ukrainian army has not been transformed. Even with the help of NATO 's command, intelligence, arms and mercenary , the Ukrainian army's field combat ability is still unsatisfactory.
Liman's loss has a huge blow to the morale of the Russian army.
October 1 coincides with Russia's Army Day. Some officers and soldiers who retreated from Liman complained that this was the most humiliating Army Day; Ukraine's special military operations were retreating step by step, and it was about to fight the Patriotic War.
Chechnya Leader Kadyrov Jr. claimed that after Liman fell, he had to express his opinions.
He scolded the military commander General Alexander Lapin for his negligence, believing that he should be demoted to a private, and sank into the trenches to fight.
Former 58 Army Commander Lieutenant General Gurulev denounced the Russian General Staff. He said: "This is not a close encounter. I don't know why the situation has not been correctly judged, nor has the troops strengthened in this direction. The key problem is that in the war reports that the situation is very good, false reports of military information can be seen everywhere, and all from top to bottom are like this."
After the Ukrainian army took Liman, they won the initiative in the battlefield. The next step can be to attack Luhansk from the flank, or to go south to open up the Azov Corridor.
On the same day, Zelensky also shouted to the Russian army in Russian: "If you don't surrender, you will be eliminated one by one."
For this reason, Ukraine launched the "I want to live" surrender rescue line.
Russian soldiers who call the dedicated line can get guidance on how to surrender and how to avoid being shot by the Ukrainian army on the battlefield. Matt Vienko, spokesman for the
special line, announced that more than 2,000 Russian troops have used this service to surrender to Ukraine.
Matveenko pointed out that the special line will treat prisoners of war in accordance with the provisions of the " Geneva Convention ", including three meals a day, medical care, and opportunities to contact relatives in Russia, Crimea , Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast .
