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russian backed separatist leaders say they ve captured the town of lyman. it s a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying this claim. our correspondentjoe inwood is in ukraine and has more. donetsk and luhansk are these two twin cities that are in the rar east of ukrainian territory in the donbas. they sit on a river called the donis river which has been donbas. a crucial geographical feature in this war. why this matters is because these two cities are the last bit of the luhansk, the luhansk region that is controlled by the ukrainians. taking that has been the key strategic aim of the russians, basically since they refocus their objective here after their failure to take kyiv. what we are seeing is the russians really putting all their energies, huge amounts of artillery bombardment of men into trying

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