Never been impressed with DPA and I’ve seen no other reports of such a wide offensive on the eastern front. Next he will say that glorious russian forces repelled the disorganized and poorly led Ukrainians. It’s a good distraction from the disasters in the north and south, and the trolls can point to the imaginary victories in the east.
DPA mainly uses Russian sources (Telegram mainly) and likes to cite their anecdotal info. However, those Telegram sources very often scoop everyone with frontline developments as the sources they have are generally serving Russian soldiers.
Among other problems, the Russians seem to have terrible OPSEC. Their loss, our gain.
Anyway, it seems that there is more info coming in via Rybar and etc. And, as the DPA guy said in the posted video, it’s not safe to rely on early Russian claims of victory or advantage, so it’s best to see these simply as reports of attacks.
The Ukrainians have much better OPSEC and they delay most official reporting by 24-48 hours.