Putin dismisses mobilization reports as Ukraine warns Russia could call up 600,000 to war
Russian officials gave similar assurances before the Kremlin’s 2022 call-up, while the decree authorizing it was never formally revoked.
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Valery Gerasimov
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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.
Russians stormed empty houses for the cameras 26 km from the town they claimed to take—and Russia’s top general announced its “liberation”
Ukraine's own military command does not even list fighting for the place, which stays under its control beind the frontline.
Moscow’s offensive has lost ground since it started — yet Russia’s top brass declared Luhansk Oblast fully seized for the fourth time
Gerasimov claimed Russia seized 1,700 km² in 2026 and controls 70% of Lyman, but ISW’s evidence shows gains of only about one fifth of that area, none of the city, and territorial losses since 1 March.
Russia’s top general claims over 500 km² seized in Ukraine in January — ISW says it’s only 265
The Russian military command has been boasting about seizing small rural villages to push the false narrative that Moscow's victory is inevitable.
Spiegel: Merkel-era Germany trained Russian troops just before Russia’s 2014 Crimea invasion
German officers and Rheinmetall helped develop Russia’s war simulation centers months before Putin seized Crimea.
Kremlin still believes they can win war of attrition against Ukraine — yet ISW says Russia’s victory “not inevitable”
Putin and Gerasimov continue to promote the idea that Russia's slow advances will ultimately force Ukraine’s collapse.
ISW: Russia launches battlefield propaganda to sell an inevitable victory that doesn’t exist
ISW says Moscow’s inflated stats are part of a coordinated information campaign to manipulate Western perception.
Russia claims it only targets “military objects” in Ukraine. But recent Russian strike killed toddler born during war and her mom
Moscow's assertion of targeting exclusively military and defense industry facilities in Ukraine contrasts with the death of civilians spanning ages from toddlers to elderly residents.