Key Takeaways:
- The Kremlin is pursuing a multi-pronged informational effort aimed at deterring Western support for Ukraine and undermining European participation in the peace process.
- Russian milbloggers criticized the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) for exaggerating its battlefield successes.
- The Kremlin is intensifying these information efforts because its territorial gains remain disproportionately limited and slow relative to the high losses incurred.
- Ukrainian forces advanced near Novopavlivka. Russian forces advanced near Toretsk.
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