Ukraine war: Bittersweet victory in Lyman as battle has come at a significant cost to civilians

The recapturing of Lyman was a significant victory for Ukraine, but as troops move on and target new Russian positions, the locals left behind face a difficult journey to rebuild. Special correspondent @AlexCrawfordSky Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Success on the battlefield translates into a very different language for the residents of Lyman - and has come at a significant cost to the civilians. The eastern Donetsk town is a husk of its former self, pummelled to bits with the heart ripped out of it and the few residents still there living beneath ground "like moles", one told us. "We don't care who's in control here," one woman told us. "It could be the devil. We just want them to stop shooting." Maps posted four hours apart show how rapidly Putin's troops are losing land - Ukraine latest We saw the corpses of Russian soldiers strewn on the road into Lyman, their burnt-out and wrecked vehicles beside them. Their bodies were bloated and their faces wax-ye