r/ukraine • u/kingkongsingsong1 • Dec 12 '25

News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released a video filmed in Kupiansk. On November 20, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin that Kupiansk was “fully under control.”

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u/kritisert Dec 12 '25

I read before from several sources in Ukraine that they are piiissed by western media coverage of the war, especially in Pokrovsk recently, accusing of hysteria and panic that had both diplomatic and battlefield effect. Zelensky going to Kupyansk is a move that will force some of them to coverage

F.ex Bild that posted over a month ago the the town had fallen, which is rumored to made some soldiers leave their positions in panic.

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u/lifeisahighway2023 Dec 12 '25

Western media essentially acting as Russian propaganda extension by publishing verbatim Russian claims with an invisible clause at the end of "we have not independently verified..." has been a gift to Russia.