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Head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu ascribes non-existent victories to himself – he stated that several settlements of the Donetsk region are already allegedly under full Russian control. However, Ukrainian intelligence assures that all these statements by Putin's apostate are fiction.
AirChannel 24, Donbass Realii journalist Oleksandr Demchenko also refuted Shoigu's statements about new territories. He assures that this is a repeated example – a similar situation was a month ago.
The journalist recalls that at that timein Russia they announced that they had “taken control” of Poprosnoynear Bakhmut.
But the next day they posted a video where it was noticeable that there were only small groups of crawling Russian troops, and not walking around the village. That's what they call “controlling” the city. At the same time, the occupiers were under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” says Demchenko.
According to him, Russia now needs to show at least some “success”, and they count themselves as a “victory” if their assault group entered the settlement, although it could be destroyed in a few hours.
“In addition, using the tactics of artillery strikes, the invaders completely destroy the settlement. And then they say that they “captured” the city, although it actually does not exist anymore. It would be more fair for them to say that they they just captured a pile of stones in the steppe,” explains Demchenko.
The journalist emphasized that Russia constantly does such manipulations with definitions and “taking control”.
For example, as the correspondent said, a few days ago the Russian media claimed that encircled due to the fact that the occupiers “captured” Klishchevka.
But if you look at the map, the occupiers really entered Kleschevka , but in the west of the village there is a hill where the positions of Ukrainian troops are fortified. That is, the Russians have entered, but they cannot dig in there, because the Armed Forces of Ukraine “cover” them with artillery from above,” Demchenko said.
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By the way, Ukrainian intelligence confirmed that Shoigu attributes non-existent victories to himself As early as January 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated from Soledar, following the order of the command to save the lives of our soldiers. However, there were no official reports regarding the other settlements mentioned by Sergei Shoigu.
