Ukraine reruns its Vivaldi playbook outside Kramatorsk and pushes Russia back across the Siverskyi Donets, ISW says
Even Russian milbloggers now concede Ukrainian gains east of Sloviansk, including a river crossing toward a key height.
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ISW: The strikes will likely cascade into deeper disruption across Russia’s rear supply network
Russia leans on two key highways to feed its war. Cut them, and fuel, shells, and troops stop reaching occupied Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk—and Ukraine's drones are working on cutting it.
ISW: Russian generals feed the Kremlin a false picture: leaked map claims towns that were never captured
Russian milbloggers complain that false reports of captured ground trigger pointless assaults to seize places the maps already show as Russian-controlled.
Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain. Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl
Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.
Russia likely invented a Ukrainian “counteroffensive” near Zaporizhzhia to cover up its own fake advance reports, ISW says
The think tank assessed that Russian forces overstated their gains near Oleksandrivka and Huliaipole and are now using claims of Ukrainian counterattacks to walk back positions they never actually held.
Russian troops crowdfund radios as assault numbers drop by half after Starlink goes dark
Ukraine's General Staff unofficially confirmed that locking unverified Starlink terminals triggered massive communication failures across Russian units.
ISW: Kremlin denies trouble in Kupiansk — even Russian milbloggers say otherwise (MAPS)
Russian officials are downplaying battlefield losses, yet even pro-Kremlin voices admit things are unraveling in eastern Kharkiv Oblast.
ISW: Russian milbloggers glorify execution of Ukrainian POWs, frame them as acceptable warfare
Popular Russian military bloggers, some with millions of followers including soldiers, are actively promoting the execution of Ukrainian POWs. This rhetoric, amplified by Kremlin-affiliated channels, risks normalizing war crimes among Russian forces.