Euromaidan Press reports Moscow has announced the capture of Kostiantynivka, a fortress city holding back Russia's occupation of Donetsk Oblast since 2014, but Defense Express director Serhii Zhurets says Russian troops are only in its southwest and the claim fits a pattern of captures that don't match the front. He says Putin's proposed "humanitarian operation," modeled on occupied Oleshky, is absolutely unacceptable and that Russia is leaning on Trump's influence to pressure Ukraine out, while adviser Dmytro Lytvyn says Oleshky shows what Russia intends.