Putin’s ‘absurd’ view of Ukraine war exposed by new report into ‘culture of lying’ inside Russian army
- The Russian army has a “pervasive culture of lying” over battlefield gains which has left Vladimir Putin with a “severely distorted” view of the frontline situation in Ukraine, military analysts have said.
- Several Russian military bloggers have offered a bleak picture of the frontline near Lyman in the Donetsk region, where Ukrainian counterattacks are pushing back Russia’s forward positions and exposing misleading military reports from Russian forces.
- One milblogger, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), argued that “‘beautiful reports” - a term milbloggers have coined to ref
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- The Russian army has a “pervasive culture of lying” over battlefield gains which has left Vladimir Putin with a “severely distorted” view of the frontline situation in Ukraine, military analysts have said.
- Several Russian military bloggers have offered a bleak picture of the frontline near Lyman in the Donetsk region, where Ukrainian counterattacks are pushing back Russia’s forward positions and exposing misleading military reports from Russian forces.
- One milblogger, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), argued that “‘beautiful reports” - a term milbloggers have coined to ref
Sources: The Independent