After Putin succeeded in annexing Ukrainian regions and holding a referendum in them, there are reports in the pro-Ukrainian media saying that the Ukrainian army succeeded in retaking large parts of these regions. This was accompanied by silence from the Russian side to comment on the matter.
Is it possible that the news is true or is it only for media consumption as the two parties are accustomed to doing?
The recent events showed a shift in the course of the war, and it seems that what Russia called the military operation to protect minorities in Ukraine, became one of its most important goals to bring down the political regime in Ukraine.
The illegal annexation has been so successful that Adolf Putin has signed a decree to install martial law in several RF oblasts. The Orc army is so successful that a number of oblasts that have border with the illegally occupied territories have now restrictions to travel, movement an massive control.
One would think that Adolf Putin did not take much of large bite, but it seems that even that little illegally taken territory is more than he can hope to defend.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/19/putin-martial-law-annexed-ukraine-regions/Or maybe this is just for consumption.. sure.