As Ukrainian forces retake key town, another elite Russian unit appears to have gone through ‘the meat grinder’
Destroyed apartments in the Ukrainian town of Lyman on November 27.Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images During the Ukrainian counteroffensive this fall, Ukrainian troops surrounded the town of Lyman. Lyman is an important hub in eastern Ukraine, and a larger Russian force was trapped there. Russian troops at Lyman and those that withdrew suffered heavy …