Things I’m seeing in Russian media:
This is being called “the Operation for the Denazification of Ukraine”
The Russians claim they have destroyed the Ukrainian navy and the Ukrainian air force.
They claim the Kulbakino military airfield where the Turkish drones were based has been destroyed.
They claim a significant part of Ukrainian arsenals have been destroyed by Russian precision weapons.
Putin called on the Ukrainian army to surrender. He promised a pardon to any soldier who lays down his arms. He said he holds the government of Ukraine responsible for all bloodshed.
7 km long Russian column moving from Crimea towards Ukraine.
So, Russia didn’t want a NATO state right at its border and what does it do? Takes over Ukraine and then it will have NATO states right next to them instead of having Ukraine as a buffer.
claims I am seeing on Russian social media:
A fierce battle is taking place between the Russian army and the Ukrainian army for the city of Kharkov, Russian Grad MLRSs taking a heavy toll on the Ukrainians
LPR claiming it has attacked north into Ukrainian-occupied territory and caused the Ukrainians to withdraw from their positions strewn with bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers
LPR claiming a large body of Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded and surrendered
They are claiming that Russian tank columns are “liberating” Odessa
2 Ukrainian SU-24s shot down
all SU-24M bombers destroyed at Starokonstantinov airfield
How much of this is true or exaggerated to try to demoralize the Ukrainians, impossible to say
One thing Zelensky can say, and it is a bluff, that not all of the nukes in Ukraine were accounted for back in 92. One might just happen to be in Moscow.