This is how the frontline moves," the pilot explained.
Delivery of essential supplies has become restricted due to intercepting enemy drone units, prompting the Ukrainian monitoring project DeepState to report that the fall of the city is a matter of time.
"The situation remains under control," insisted Brig. Gen.
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Oleksandr Bakulin, commander of Ukraine's 19th Corps, to the BBC.
Bakulin acknowledged the presence of approximately 130 Russian soldiers inside the city while maintaining that the opposing forces achieved no success.
"They are running away, they are demoralised, but there are still some who try to return fire.
South of Kostyantynivka there are now only a minimum number of enemy troops, we have cleared them out there.
Now we are starting a sort of offensive aimed at destroying the enemy troops directly in Kostyantynivka – in its central and western parts.
There are not many of them, we know where they are," stated his deputy, Yuriy Madyar, as reported by NV.
Frontline accounts gathered by the BBC and independent analysts contradict these claims, describing the city as a grey zone where Russian infantry advances slowly by taking shelter inside buildings and under seasonal tree cover.
"We still have clean-up and assault groups inside the city, but the Russians manage to accumulate more and more soldiers there," stated an anonymous Ukrainian officer to the BBC.
Frontline personnel indicated that commanders remain reluctant to report lost positions due to orders requiring immediate counter-assaults despite lacking the necessary reinforcements to cover personnel losses.
"We don't have enough people to hold on to what we still control, let alone organise assaults," explained an anonymous frontline soldier to the BBC.
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Military analysts from DeepState noted that the loss of Kostiantynivka will complicate future logistical operations and increase the danger for remaining Ukrainian forces in Kramatorsk.
