Here are today's control-of-terrain maps for #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats

Click here to see our interactive map, updated daily: https://t.co/tXBburiWEN pic.twitter.com/Cu2u72Np8r

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) October 4, 2022

?? have advanced rapidly in the north of Kherson and are confirmed to have liberated the settlements of Davdyiv Brid, Mala Oleksandrivka, Velyka Oleksandrivka, Starosillya, Novopetrivka, Petropavilvka, Ukrainka, and Dudchany. pic.twitter.com/nzlVU38AZ3

— War Mapper (@War_Mapper) October 5, 2022

A torture chamber in Pisky-Radkivski. 2 photos. A gas mask that was put on the head of a victim who was covered with a smoldering rag and buried alive. And a box of gold dental crowns. A mini Auschwitz. How many more will be found in occupied Ukraine?
Photo @serhii_bolvinov pic.twitter.com/So4glJlt9N

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) October 4, 2022

Meanwhile on Russian state TV: grim predictions that Russia is at least two months away from even attempting to advance. Also, some surprising admissions about how unprepared they were and the magnitude of the losses they've experienced in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/VXL05R7JpN

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 5, 2022

A couple of days after Ramzan Kadyrov criticized Colonel General Lapin for being far from the front lines during the fighting in Lyman, Russian channels are sharing photos of him leading troops. Clearly a PR battle going on between Russian commanders.https://t.co/jR2qfeEMdL pic.twitter.com/xSG94ZWvVE

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) October 4, 2022

The Ukrainian Armed Forces also downed Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters in Kostromka and Bruskinskyi districts of Kherson Oblast.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 5, 2022

Understand Russians continuing to beat hasty retreat in Kherson. Russian military scribblers say Snihurivka, N of Kherson city, now under Ukrainian control. From conversations w Ukrainian sources I have no reason to doubt them. Will be interesting to see where we are by day end

— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) October 5, 2022

?? ?? Training of junior commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has begun in Great Britain - basic level training of junior commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has begun on the territory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. pic.twitter.com/JReRXHgDe4

— Генеральний штаб ЗСУ (@GeneralStaffUA) October 5, 2022

1/ Mobilised men from Omsk are complaining that they are not being paid. The regional authorities have admitted they do not have enough money to pay them, according to reports. (Thanks to @altryne for the automatic translation) https://t.co/pMvFU0a6bR

— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 5, 2022

Forbes Russia is reporting that around 700,000 Russians have left the country since mobilization was announced. https://t.co/yyDZplRTGQ

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) October 5, 2022

1/ There's dissatisfaction about Colonel General Gennady Zhidko being reappointed to command Russia's Eastern Military District. One Telegram writer complains he and others created "a wall of lies ... a sea of blood and a swamp of corpses". Translation below (h/t @RALee85). ⬇️

— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 5, 2022

Russians mined a dam in Kharkiv region with TNT, anti-tank mines, electric detonators - equivalent of almost 700 kg TNT total.

If the dam exploded, all nearby villages would be flooded.

Explosion technicians from National Police expertly de-mined it.

?: National Police pic.twitter.com/RqQiR4Tkv6

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 4, 2022

Hundreds of thousands are rushed to the front line in Ukraine without having a clear idea of why they have to do it.
I had a fascinating chat with a guy who chose not to dodge the draft even though he's crystal-clear about the futility of this war.https://t.co/P6A3kn8V32

— Nataliya Vasilyeva (@Nat_Vasilyeva) October 5, 2022

Russia lacks manpower to resist a further Ukrainian advance into Luhansk says Komsomolskaya Pravda’s Alexander Kots who’s embedded w/Russia military. “The Russian troops do not have enough manpower to stop the enemy attacks..It’s a very difficult period of time on the front line” pic.twitter.com/4XSzj1gzQg

— Michael Bociurkiw (@WorldAffairsPro) October 5, 2022

Russia has become the biggest (if involuntary) provider of heavy weapons for Ukraine. My piece of how Ukraine is turning recently captured Russian tanks and howitzers on their former owners, powering Kyiv’s rapid offensive in the east. https://t.co/C2Xm0oCyko

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) October 5, 2022

Rybar's update on Starobilsk (Svatove) direction, says Arab mercenaries arrived to help Ukrainian side.https://t.co/AkL68p48HB pic.twitter.com/yGrTJYBa7V

— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 5, 2022

The BBC's Russian service said the GRU intelligence agency’s 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade, an elite reconnaissance unit, may have lost three-quarters of its manpower. https://t.co/aQ4iUQZW7G

— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 5, 2022

Putin signs an order to transfer Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest in Europe, to Russian control to continue his policy of energy blackmail https://t.co/IcZfCxQ42Y

— Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) October 5, 2022

This tells us a bit about how desperate the Russians are to get a win.

Since they cant win on the battlefield, so they fabricate wins on the internet. https://t.co/nzgCFO6aWz

— Def Mon (@DefMon3) October 5, 2022

"Instead of a children's cancer center, Steven Seagal's martial arts center will be built"

Modern Russia summed up in a single headline

(Source: https://t.co/6jABHtwRfH) https://t.co/EQLVIuZAoj

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) October 5, 2022

Russian source on Kherson:
"There is an attack of different strength from all three directions (Nikolaev, Andreevskoe and Dutchany), up to 50 vehicles from each. Defensive battles are underway and the situation is assessed as “difficult”. we are on the defensive."

— WarMonitor?? (@WarMonitor3) October 5, 2022

Residents of Novopetrivka, Kherson region greet our Warriors.

It'll be all right, our Defenders tell them.

Glory to Heroes! pic.twitter.com/oXoKns7auB

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 5, 2022

Interestingly, RU State TV now claiming it will take “two months” to get recently mobilized to the front lines in Ukraine.

Great. But will they be able to do anything? No friggin’ way.

RU may be able to train the basics of soldiering in 2 months.

But…. 1/5

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) October 5, 2022

-You can’t “coordinate” tankers, infantry, arty, intel, engineers, air forces & others for battlefield operations in 2 months
-you can’t “counter distrust” soldiers have in RU govt in 2 months
-after 60,000 dead soldiers, you can’t reverse the loss felt by RU mothers & wives 3/

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) October 5, 2022

But suffice to say, any RU State TV commentator or pundit who are saying things will be better - in the winter! - in just 2 months needs to remember just one thing:

You can’t change culture in 2 months.

Doing that takes years, even decades.

Putin will keep losing. 5/5

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) October 5, 2022

Russian TV talking head attempted to say how Ukrainians have poor winter clothing, but the presenter stopped him and told him to worry about problems with their own army? pic.twitter.com/luECv4E5FB

— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 5, 2022

President of the so-called "russia" says they never did anything bad to Ukrainians, and treated Ukrainians with the utmost respect. pic.twitter.com/Sp7WuKFZ7n

— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 5, 2022

More footage of the liberated village of Novovoskresens'ke in the Kherson region ?? pic.twitter.com/3wTIKZ5Mr1

— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) October 5, 2022