Ukrainian defenders are destroying the occupiers in the South. At the same time, the Russians are trying to hide their panic from the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with yet another fiction.
The American Institute for the Study of War said that, in particular, Russian officials are lying. They are reinforcing their narratives around the Ukrainian offensive in the Kherson region to reinforce the lie that it is allegedly detrimental to the existence of Ukraine in the future.
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Putin's supporters lie about the failure of the Ukrainian offensive in the South
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoyga said on September 2 that President Vladimir Zelensky planned the Ukrainian offensive in the Kherson region solely for in order to create the illusion among the “Western curators” that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can conduct an effective counteroffensive.
The self-proclaimed deputy minister of internal affairs of quasi-education in the Luhansk region, Vitaly Kiselev, generally speaks of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South in the past. They say that the participation of Ukrainian troops in it was “collective suicide” and suffered significant losses.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko also continues to play along with the Kremlin. On September 1, he said that internal Ukrainian disagreements would soon force the military conflict to end. In turn, Russian military bloggers reinforced the same narratives on September 1-2, as the information space surrounding the success and pace of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kherson region remained hazy.
Russian sources likely will continue to spread these false informational narratives in order to exploit the silence of the Ukrainian military,” the experts noted.
The ISW added that complex counter-offensives cannot be resolved instantly or in a few days. At the same time, the Russian lie about the immediate failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the lack of permanent Ukrainian claims to territorial gains is a deliberate clouding of reality.
