monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fedorov's removal is the one that will echo longer — not because of anything happening on a map, but because it landed as a blow to public trust in the reform process itself, at a point where that process was still very much unfinished. 170
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Ukrainian command often delays public confirmation of its own gains until an operation clears OPSEC, then releases the results as a single batch — which makes the summer look more one-sided while it's happening than it turns out to be once the batch lands. 180
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026One more caveat before the numbers. In my map comparison, Ukrainian and Russian representations of the same front now diverge by as much as 25 kilometers, enough to make any month-by-month reading fragile unless you fix a convention and hold it. 170