By 4 December, Russian warbloggers were reporting that it was impossible to make any real advances in the city due to extreme logistical difficulties – the only way to get supplies in was to drop them from drones.

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34/ On 20 November, Gerasimov personally reported to Putin that Kupyansk had been "liberated". Russian warbloggers once again cried foul, pointing out that there was no objective evidence of the claim. Meanwhile, the fighting continued into December.https://t.co/z98690M5Jt

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On 20 November, Gerasimov personally reported to Putin that Kupyansk had been 'liberated'. Russian warbloggers once again cried foul, pointing out that there was no objective evidence of the claim. Meanwhile, the fighting continued into December.

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33/ "At best, soldiers would emerge from closed, unmarked spaces, basements, introducing themselves as commanders of assault units, reporting the liberation of … a certain number of buildings in Kupyansk and their advance. But there was no confirmation."

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For several weeks now, reports have been emerging from the Kupyansk direction, one more triumphant than the other: men in clean camouflage uniforms are reading from basements from pieces of paper about large-scale successes and the clearing of key points.

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By late November, the Russian military was resorting to posting obviously staged videos to promote its claims of capturing Kupyansk. They were so obvious that they were called out by Russian warbloggers such as Rybar.

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27/ Despite the ridicule, Gerasimov repeated the same claims about Kupyansk in late October and added a claim that 18 Ukrainian battalions were trapped there. This prompted Russian warbloggers to speculate that he was trying to impress Donald Trump as much as Vladimir Putin.

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26/ "This means we supposedly control the entire right-bank part of Kupyansk and the northern part of the left bank. Well, you get the idea, we've already "practically taken" Kupyansk without anyone noticing."

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By late September, the Russian advance had slowed to such a crawl that the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) was issuing statements proclaiming the capture of individual buildings. It published a report that included a map of recent advances, which immediately drew ridicule from warbloggers.

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They were very surprised to learn that the enemy had made advances in their sectors, where a well-equipped adversary, entrenched in the ground for years and even superior in FPV aviation, had been operating.

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He pointed out that the claim was backed up by the flimsiest evidence – a Russian flag being dropped by drone onto the city's TV tower in a so-called "anti-crisis operation", after hard questions were asked about Gerasimov's claims.

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