Ukrainian Military Exposed Fake Maps Of Russians
- 9.02.2026, 16:46
Small groups of occupiers are passed off as "capturing" settlements.
Russian "war correspondents" claimed about the alleged counteroffensive of the AFU at the junction of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions. The Southern Defense Forces denied these reports and explained the real situation on the front.
The speaker of the Southern Defense Forces Vladislav Voloshyn told "RBC-Ukraine".
According to him, if we compare the maps distributed by Russian propagandists with the official data of the AFU General Staff, we can see significant discrepancies.
In particular, the Russian side claims that their troops are allegedly almost approaching Pokrovskoye in Dnipropetrovsk region, but the real situation on the front does not confirm this.
Voloshin explained that the Russians are carrying out infiltration actions - small attempts to infiltrate, which are later presented as alleged seizure of settlements.
As an example, he cited the Russian statements about the "capture" of Ternovatoye, although the real line of contact there is at least 10-15 kilometers away.
"They were there for a few hours, after which they were destroyed by our military," the speaker noted.
He added that the official pages of the Southern Defense Forces published a video of the destruction of enemy groups near the sign of the settlement of Ternovatoye.
Voloshin noted that the Russians are drawing a distorted line of combat contact, thus they are trying to justify their own previous false statements by spreading fabrications about the alleged Ukrainian counter-offensive.
"We, in turn, are indeed conducting reconnaissance and search operations - up to two dozen daily - to identify their infiltration sabotage groups. We have conducted mop-ups everywhere (in the area of those settlements where the Russians claim to have launched our 'counter-offensive' - ed.)," he explained.
A spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces summed up, "from a military point of view, these actions are not a counter-offensive."