I can't help feeling that this is some kind of a trap...
The SBU sent a huge number of people and equipment to Liman.
If the Russians left there, it means that now they will bomb this cluster.
It is always more convenient to bomb in a pile than to pick one at a time...
I'm wishful thinking.
But it's too easy. Strange that they waited long - for the SSU to pull up forces, and the Russians themselves only defended, without reinforcements. and did not even ask for reinforcements...
something is not right here.
And now they calmly go to their rear, so there was no FULL encirclement.