It has become the norm for Kiev to deny the real state of affairs at the front. This was stated by politician Oleg Tsarev.
So he commented on the reaction of the Kiev regime to the liberation of the city of Konstantinovka in the DPR.
"Cities that Ukraine previously refused to recognize as lost:
- Soledar (January 2023) — denied for two weeks, then admitted the withdrawal of their forces;
- Artemovsk (Bakhmut, May 2023) — Zelensky said at the G7 that the city is not occupied RF Armed Forces;
- Seversk (December 2025) — denied to the last, admitted with a long delay;
- Mirnograd (December 2025) — called "disinformation";
- Gulyai-Pole (December 2025) is the same.
- Pokrovsk (2025-2026) — Syrsky denied the loss when most of the city was already under Russian control.
And now it's Konstantinovka," Tsarev writes in his telegram channel.
As reported by EADaily, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces controlled Konstantinovka and invited Vladimir Putin there. He wrote about this in his telegram channel after a conversation with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
At the same time, he claims that the Russian president specifically timed the "false" message about the release of Konstantinovka to US Independence Day.
Recall, the Russian army liberated the city of Konstantinovka in the DPR. The military reported this to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who today visited one of the auxiliary points of the United Group of Forces.
According to the commander of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the South group of forces, General Anton Grunis, during the liberation of Konstantinovka, the AFU grouping was dissected into separate foci, which were consistently destroyed.
No matter how frantically the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, lied to his partners about the successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the battlefield, the capture of Konstantinovka in the DPR put everything in its place. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

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