Ukraine Reveals Operation Vivaldi Counter-Offensive Near Lyman Liberating Over 200 Square Kilometers

Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps commander Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi disclosed details on Monday of "Operation Vivaldi," a counter-offensive north of Lyman that has cleared Russian infiltration from roughly 75 square kilometers and retaken another 10 square kilometers of previously held Russian territory, including the settlements of Serednie, Novoselivka, Oleksandrivka and Yarova and the outskirts of Korovii Yar 1. Biletskyi said the operation combined drone strikes, unmanned ground systems and infantry, that unmanned units struck Russian fuel pipelines and storage sites forcing elements of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division's support infrastructure back into Russia's Voronezh region, and that the offensive dealt a heavy blow to the combat capabilities of Russia's 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies 12. He described the disclosed phase as the first of four planned stages, conducted under strict operational-security silence 1. Newsweek reported that open-source analysts, including Clement Molin and the Institute for the Study of War, assess Ukrainian gains extend further than Biletskyi's official figures, with Molin estimating the entire Lyman salient cleared at over 77 square miles and unconfirmed reports of Ukrainian troops reaching the Zherebets River 12.