"Oh my God, the Russians have advanced 12 kilometers". Ukrainian Armed Forces explain the situation in Dobropillya and how maps are drawn

Russian troops near the town of Dobropillia and the Pokrovsk direction in Donetsk region are using small group tactics to try to penetrate deeper into Ukrainian positions. This creates a false impression of advancement on open-source maps. About said spokesperson for the Dnipro operational and strategic military grouping, Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Tregubov.

According to him, the Russians are using infiltration tactics – a certain number of small groups are constantly maintaining pressure on Ukrainian positions and trying to bypass the first line, get through the zone and move on.

"When they move on, they try to engage in fire with Ukrainian rebels or Ukrainian drones, or try to accumulate somewhere," Tregubov noted.

The spokesman emphasized that these are small groups of several people and their presence is recorded on unofficial maps.

"And so, on maps from open sources, it seems that "oh my God, the Russians have advanced" there by... the last time it was reported, it seems, was 12 kilometers deep into Ukrainian territory. But we need to understand that it is not about them taking control of this territory. We are talking about a small group of 5-10 Russians sneaking in, and this is absolutely not what it looks like on the map," the spokesman explained.

He added that this does not mean that the enemy controls the entire path that has been traveled.

"They (the Russian troops – ed.) made their way through and tried to hide somewhere in the basement, and, of course, the reserves of the Ukrainian forces arrived there to destroy them," Viktor Tregubov summarized.

Previously, the OSINT project Deepstate recorded occupants' advance in the northeast of Dobropillia, Donetsk region.

According to their map, the occupiers' advance amounted to about 9 kilometers.

on August 11, the Dnipro (formerly Khortytsia) Operational and Strategic Command reported that in the Dobropil and Pokrovsk directions, the occupiers were trying to infiltrate in small groups through the first line of Ukrainian defense, but that control over the territory is out of the question.

• on July 25, the President reported that Russian saboteurs they visited Pokrovsk up to seven times, but they are being destroyed. The enemy is not advancing in this direction.
• august 5, the General Staff denied the information about the encirclement of the Defense Forces in Pokrovsk.
• on August 12, Azov reported that the 1st Corps of the National Guard occupied the designated defense line in the Pokrovske direction.