After Kostyantynivka, Putin signals a bigger Russian push toward Slovyansk & Kramatorsk

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the capture of Konstantinovka is only the first, but a very important, stage in breaking Ukrainian positions across the wider Slovyansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka defence belt. In the remarks, he framed the reported gain not as an isolated battlefield success, but as part of a broader effort to dismantle one of Ukraine’s deepest fortified zones in Donbas.