The inability of the Russian Ministry of Defense to recognize Russia's defeat in the Kharkiv region is destroying the Russian information space.
from Kharkiv Oblast is a planned “regrouping”, designed to strengthen the Donetsk direction, is as much a lie as the “gesture of goodwill” during the retreat from Kyiv at the end of March. The Russian Ministry of Defense is not capable of admitting defeat and thereby harms itself even more, according to analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), as they wrote in their conclusions for September 11.
“The Ministry of Defense of Russia falsely claimed that Russian troops carried out a series of demonstration actions and used artillery and aviation to ensure the safety of the withdrawal of Russian troops. These Russian statements have no relation to the situation on the ground, the ISW concluded. – The inability of the Russian Ministry of Defense to recognize Russia's miscalculations in the Kharkiv region and to effectively create information conditions is destroying the Russian information space.Experts noticed that the Kremlin's propagandists were so unprepared for the collapse of the Russian army on the battlefield that they “offered a wide range of confused explanations” of the situation in order not to recognize Ukrainian successes. They either said that “Russian troops are fighting against the entire Western bloc”, or downplayed the importance of the Kupyan direction for the logistics of Russian troops.
“Kremlin propagandists were extremely disorganized in their narratives: some confirmed the liberation of certain cities, while others denied such reports. The invited experts were also unable to confirm the host's narrative that Ukrainian successes are not important for the Donbas axis. Such programs can reveal the real course of the Russian “special military operation” to the general Russian public, which relies on the state media and the Russian Ministry of Defense for updates,” ISW experts note.
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