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Zelensky hails advances as open recriminations intensify in Russian media

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Zelensky hails advances as open recriminations intensify in Russian media

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the town of Lyman, which Russian troops have used as a key logistics hub in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, was completely “cleared of Russian occupiers,” the Defense Ministry said on Twitter.