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Ukraine’s Operation Drill Down
Russia loses a tactical position
Since the start of escalations in the first week of June, Ukrainian forces have liberated eight settlements. Fourteen days. Eight locations. That’s a lot better than the zero victory achieved by Putin’s winter counter-offensive.
Fierce fighting rages around the recently liberated village. The fight has also spread on to the information space as claims and counter-claims about the capture of the village spread thick and fast onto the social media space. The news of the village’s fall into Ukrainian hands first came from the Russian side.
Vladimir Rogov, a Kremlin-appointed regional official, said on the Telegram messaging app that Ukrainian troops had taken the village of Piatykhatky “under operational control,” and were entrenching themselves there. Russian forces, he added, were using artillery fire in an attempt to wrest it back.
The Russian military bloggers who remain a vital source of information for tracking the invaders’ frontline echoed the regional official’s statement first. Most of them changed their presentation after the Russian defense ministry disputed the village’s status.
Nevertheless, I really don’t think that matters anymore. Ukraine will be more than glad to have the Russians bend over backwards to recapture the…
