Russian forces regularly claim to have captured settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region and stage actions to create the illusion of advances, including conspicuous flag-raising displays.
Meanwhile, Vozdvyzhivka, Mala Tokmachka and Omelnyk remain under the control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. Russian positions are about 23 kilometers from Zaporizhzhia, not five kilometers as claimed by the Russian military command.
Anastasiia Shevchenko, Deputy Spokesperson for the Operation Task Force South, said this in a comment to an Ukrinform correspondent.
“Russian claims of significant advances in the Zaporizhzhia region have practically become a meme. The enemy regularly reports to their senior military command that they have supposedly captured settlements and achieved battlefield successes, but the actual situation is entirely different,” she said.
According to Shevchenko, late last week, Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told the Russian leadership that Russian troops were allegedly just five kilometers from Zaporizhzhia and were already striking Ukrainian Defense Forces positions within the city itself. These claims, however, are false: according to the Ukrainian side, Russian forces remain 23 kilometers from the regional capital.
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