How Russian generals fabricated battlefield victories for Putin

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Russian military reports inflate battlefield gains, creating a false narrative of continuous victory for President Putin. General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff, claimed control of 29 settlements in June, but the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) verified only 20, a discrepancy of over twentyfold. The ISW, a US think tank founded in 2007, analyzes military operations using open-source intelligence, though it has received funding from defense contractors and is considered hawkish.


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